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Postby madmag9999 » Mon Mar 15, 2004 4:30 pm

my harddrive makes a sound like high pressuer gas is escapeing from it. this happens at random times it could be during video compression or while its just sitting idle. sometimes it will crash my system but sometimes it just makes the noise and keeps going. its a maxtor 120gig 7200rpm. what is wrong with it? should i send it back to them for a repair or a new one? should i be worried about it breaking totaly and back up my data daily?
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Postby narcted » Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:41 pm

The hermetic seal could be breached. Could mean dust or other contaminents got in. Likewise the read head could actually be making contact with the disk plates. The read head actually should skin the surface about 4-10 nm above the plate. My Maxtor 4GB (yeah, way back when I was using and AMD K6 100) made hissing sound before it finally died. Maxtor has a one year warranty, I think.
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Postby madmag9999 » Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:51 pm

yea they do but i was hopeing it wasnt anything serious. guess its serious then :cry:
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Postby klinky » Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:38 am

What could be considered a pressurized sound is the drive shutting off. You could test and see if this is the sound you're getting by setting your Power settings to turn the disk off in "5 minutes" then waiting the five minutes(make sure no apps that use the disk are running) and see if you hear the sound.

If it's making this sound while the disk is being accessed, then the disk is shutting down when being witten to. This is troubling espcially if it is crashing your computer. Download the PowerDrive(think that's what it's called) software off Maxtor's website.

I've gone through about four or five Maxtor hard drives, starting with the original two. So yeah, I am not too thrilled with their reliability...

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Postby madmag9999 » Wed Mar 17, 2004 6:48 am

well i submitted an RMA and maxtor is corss shipping me a new one. thanx for the help
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Postby bum » Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:44 pm

generaly when a hard disk starts making a wierd noise the first thing to do is to BACK UP THAT HARD DISK NOW
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Postby madmag9999 » Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:10 pm

i got the new hdd today and i put it in my comp with the old one that makes the noise and shuts off sometimes and the new one is not recognized by windows. my motherboard see it fine but windows dose not
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Postby Corran » Fri Mar 19, 2004 9:48 pm

Your harddrive should have come with an installation disk...


I got a harddrive from someone who thought it was defective once. Turns out he bought it on e-bay and it didn't come with the installation software. I had a disk from a previous install so I ran that and everything was good after that.


Go here for a maxtor drive for the installation software if you don't have the disk.

http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downlo ... blast3.htm
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Postby madmag9999 » Fri Mar 19, 2004 10:37 pm

they didnt ship me the disk but i just used the win2k cd to windows format the harddrive (like bum suggested) and it worked. now its just a matter of copying all my files over
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Postby bum » Sat Mar 20, 2004 3:25 pm

actualy i told you to use the winxp disk :P
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Postby madmag9999 » Sat Mar 20, 2004 3:58 pm

yea but i wasnt sure if i format it with xp that it will work with 2k so i just used the 2k disk
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Postby bum » Sat Mar 20, 2004 4:10 pm

madmag9999 wrote:yea but i wasnt sure if i format it with xp that it will work with 2k so i just used the 2k disk


what ? my god you didnt follow my advice EXACTLY ? do you know that theirs a chance of your skull blowing up if that happens ?
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Postby madbunny » Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:15 am

You probably have to check your BIOS.

When your computer starts up, and you get the little message "press DEL to enter setup" (usually del) do it.

this will take you to the bios menu.
Go to the IDE tab/button/menu and scan for hard drives, there may be a function that does it, if not then set everything to AUTO and let the computer scan it.

If your computer finds it, well and dandy.
If your computer does NOT find it then you may have to mess with your cables, or jumper settings.

If you have never installed a hard drive before, you should probably get some help. If you don't have a disk for moving your data to the new drive then you'll need to make some informed decisions.

Luck.
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Postby madmag9999 » Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:21 am

the computer found it its just that windows did not recognize it becouse it was not windows formated. but it all works fine now so theres no need to post here again. o and btw i built my comp so im not like computer retarded or anything
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Postby madbunny » Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:28 am

madmag9999 wrote:the computer found it its just that windows did not recognize it becouse it was not windows formated. but it all works fine now so theres no need to post here again. o and btw i built my comp so im not like computer retarded or anything


glad your problem is fixed. I'm not calling you a 'tard. It's just that a lot of people don't know anything at all about bios, and it's easy to screw up a computer using it. So I took the safe road and said be careful. Sorry if that offended you.
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