HAY GUYS

LiquidAcid · Local time: Jun 24, 2006, 08:08 PM

This setup is completly valid, you don't need primary partitions to have a extended one. Of course most of the time you first create the 4 primary partitions and after running out of partition numbers the logical partitions are created. But I don't think you problems originates from the style of harddrive partitioning.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

LiquidAcid · Local time: Jun 25, 2006, 03:53 PM

Maybe you should get some tools from you harddrive vendor (nearly every vendor provides them) to do a entire disk check. If the drive is faulty (or your ide/sata controller is faulty - another possibility) the tool should tell you so (or at least crash after short time).

cya
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There's nowhere I can't reach.

LiquidAcid · Local time: Jun 25, 2006, 04:12 PM

Source of your information about the realiability of WD product?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

LiquidAcid · Local time: Jun 25, 2006, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by Relic

Anyways, I ran into similar problems with a Seagate drive in an external box. As far as I can tell, the external hardware came with a cheap power supply that didn't supply enough voltage to start a 7200 RPM drive reliably. It sounds like you might be running into similar problems.

Than mechanical damage would be the problem. If the drive is spinning too slow you can damage it rather quickly. It's like operating your drive upside down.

Sooner or later -> bearing failure
I had the problem with a WD drive (yeah yeah - the western digitals...) and the only way to make it operate again was putting it in a antistatic bag and then into the freezer. Wait 2 hours, open bag, connect harddisk and try to be really fast when backuping you files. I hope you never get into that kind of situation. But at least it worked.

How ya doing, buddy?