[sapphy]

Hello, I have been having trouble with my 40 gig Maxtor for a couple weeks now. At first it was making a lot of noise but that has stopped. Now at random when I turn on my computer, it says I have no hard drive. When I restart it's back. Also, at times I receive and error (unknown hard error) and everything freezes. My question is, should I replace it before it actually goes? It's no longer on warranty so I want to make sure it can't be fixed before buying another hard drive.

I have a 1000 gig athlon, abit kt7a raid motherboard, 2 48x liteon burners and a 20 gig maxtor.

Thanks,

sapphy

 

[SPEEDO]

Welcome to the forums sapphy................

Usually when you here noise coming from a hard drive it is a sign of impending doom.

 

[sapphy]

Hi, thanks for the welcome. I thought that wasn't a good sign but it hasn't made a noise in almost a week now, it's just the other things. I was hoping it was something else. I'll just replace it to avoid any kind of troubles later.

sapphy

 

[merlin]

Yes. save yourself some headache. And if you havent done it already, backup your data.

 

[SPEEDO]

it hasn't made a noise in almost a week now

You have other symptoms that you mentioned in your opening post.

 

[sapphy]

Yes, I have other symptoms on and off. I was hoping that the other things were something else but I think it's best to just replace it.

sapphy

 

[r00t]

You can try Spinrite from Steve Gibson.

www.grc.com

It's a pretty good hard drive utility, and can sometimes straighten out a bad sector table, returning a smaller working drive.

 

[SPEEDO]

Welcome to the forums r00t

You can buy a hard drive cheaper.....................