WD 120Gb SE harddrive woes

Dom · Jan 23, 2003, 11:30 PM

My friend resently gave me a 120Hd WD SE HD (he had it in his system, never used it so he gave it to me). Anyway I install this thing & tried to put some files on but it took forever, less that 1Mb a min and when idle it freezes my system. So I said, OK, let me format this thing, before I got a chance to restart my computer the whole system goes off & on again. OK, booted back up, now during start up the BIOS says the drive failed. I restarted, the HD passes now, so I formated the drive (took about an hour). I figure now everything will work, but no, now both drives fail during start up (same drive but not SE). I took the drive out just to boot up & downloaded a special utility from WD's page. I put the drive back in everything booted OK, ran the test (which took an hour) & the utility finds nothing worng, now I'm pissed. So I took the drive out and RMA'ed it back to WD.

I'll update you guys when I get the drive back.

MikeDaMan · Jan 24, 2003, 04:00 AM

Maybe thats why your friend never used it

digitalwanderer · Jan 24, 2003, 04:20 AM

Sorry to hear that Dom, I HATE messing with messed up drives! It takes forever just to figured out they're f*cked.

Dom · Jan 24, 2003, 07:07 AM

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Originally posted by MikeDaMan
Maybe thats why your friend never used it

I think it was broke when he bought it and since he never used it he never knew.

misterman87 · Jan 24, 2003, 02:43 PM

hey guys how are you doing well let me tell you about alittle problem i had with two of the same drives the 120gig wd 8mb i had to rma the both of them they would freeze inbetween programs and one of them would make noise and took a long time to format also so after i got them back i sold them both and purchased two seagates i think those drives have some problems and nobody is saying anything maybe we can get some people to talk about these drives and get some feedback LOL

DriveEuro · Jan 24, 2003, 04:16 PM

I know that is out of place....but....MisterMan typed that whole response without punctuaction or anything other that a single space....Just had to point it out.

Dom · Jan 25, 2003, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DriveEuro
I know that is out of place....but....MisterMan typed that whole response without punctuaction or anything other that a single space....Just had to point it out.

Ah, who cares? I had no problem understanding him - this isn't english class.

PopSIWaReZ · Jan 25, 2003, 12:15 PM

I love my WD 120JB, and never had a problem with WD before. My other drive though a Samsung SP4004H, was DOA. But samsung sendt me a new one, and it has been working great since. (had it for one and a half years now).

So now you know c",)

Late...

Jan 25, 2003, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DriveEuro
I know that is out of place....but....MisterMan typed that whole response without punctuaction or anything other that a single space....Just had to point it out.

its spelt "Punctuation" ... just had to point it out.

ToshiroOC · Jan 25, 2003, 01:33 PM

ROFLMFAO! Billy, you truly are special

Jan 25, 2003, 01:39 PM

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Originally posted by ToshiroOC
ROFLMFAO! Billy, you truly are special

thanks but im not the one with the fancy gold medal or the gold letters on the board. care to share?

ToshiroOC · Jan 25, 2003, 01:40 PM

Sure, $10000 under the 2nd leftmost bench in the Alameda station, brown suitcase, cash $20's and $10's, no weaponry... after that, we can talk

DriveEuro · Jan 25, 2003, 07:15 PM

I type in a rush..........bah, now i look dum (HAHAHAH DUMB!) I am so smar , s m r t , I MEAN S M A R T!

reno · Jan 25, 2003, 11:31 PM

Your power supply is lacking in power, and yes, I know it's an enermax, but with your OC and your drives, your fans, you're REALLY taxing that "350W" PSU.

If both drives failed, it's not the WD. And just to let you know, formatting 120 gigs on ANY drive will take a loooong time. If it wasn't making constant "spin up" wooshing sounds, wasn't clicking on and off incessantly, and wasn't "grinding," the drive is most likely fine.

Adding that second drive seems like what brought your PSU to it's knees if BOTH drives then failed...I bet if you would have disconnected the other drive the JB would have worked just fine...

I say this, because I've experienced this on my Duron system with a 250W PSU, but it was with a 20GB maxtor + 30GB WD...the maxtor refused to let the system run properly...except when the WD was detatched.

misterman87 · Jan 26, 2003, 02:25 PM

Sorry about my punctuaction,have a nice day.

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I May be interested in selling this system looking to get a MAC system.This system is about a month old,so let me know what you guys think Thanks guys have a nice day all.

Dom · Jan 26, 2003, 09:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by reno
Your power supply is lacking in power, and yes, I know it's an enermax, but with your OC and your drives, your fans, you're REALLY taxing that "350W" PSU.

If both drives failed, it's not the WD. And just to let you know, formatting 120 gigs on ANY drive will take a loooong time. If it wasn't making constant "spin up" wooshing sounds, wasn't clicking on and off incessantly, and wasn't "grinding," the drive is most likely fine.

Adding that second drive seems like what brought your PSU to it's knees if BOTH drives then failed...I bet if you would have disconnected the other drive the JB would have worked just fine...

I say this, because I've experienced this on my Duron system with a 250W PSU, but it was with a 20GB maxtor + 30GB WD...the maxtor refused to let the system run properly...except when the WD was detatched.

Interesting, but I had the WD 120Gig + Maxtor 40Gig running fine together. I had the problems running the WD 120Gig + WD 120Gig SE together. Could the WD 120Gig SE take so much more power than the Maxtor 40Gig as to cause the problems?

Dom · Jan 28, 2003, 05:52 PM

Well, I got an e-mail from WD this morning saying that they will ship my replacement HD out in 5-7 buisness-days. I guess this means they found something worng with it, other-wise they would of said they were returning it, right?

Dom · Jan 28, 2003, 06:33 PM

Brand-new drive on it's way, secound-day delivery!

Dom · Feb 3, 2003, 03:00 AM

After getting the new drive the problems didn't go-away. I tried lowering my CPU clockspeed back down to default and the harddrive works fine. It seems it is my PSU becasue I was also having problems overclocking my video card. Thanks, Reno.

dai · Feb 3, 2003, 05:41 PM

i saw an article somewhere a couple of months ago that listed what power each component required,so that you could work out what size power supply you required.has anyone else seen this or anything equivelent

Jan 23, 2003, 11:30 PM	#1
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	WD 120Gb SE harddrive woes My friend resently gave me a 120Hd WD SE HD (he had it in his system, never used it so he gave it to me). Anyway I install this thing & tried to put some files on but it took forever, less that 1Mb a min and when idle it freezes my system. So I said, OK, let me format this thing, before I got a chance to restart my computer the whole system goes off & on again. OK, booted back up, now during start up the BIOS says the drive failed. I restarted, the HD passes now, so I formated the drive (took about an hour). I figure now everything will work, but no, now both drives fail during start up (same drive but not SE). I took the drive out just to boot up & downloaded a special utility from WD's page. I put the drive back in everything booted OK, ran the test (which took an hour) & the utility finds nothing worng, now I'm pissed. So I took the drive out and RMA'ed it back to WD. I'll update you guys when I get the drive back.

Jan 24, 2003, 04:00 AM	#2
MikeDaMan DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 874 Rep Power: 0	Maybe thats why your friend never used it __________________ DFI Lanpart UT 250GB motherboard. 1GB 2X512 Crucial Ballistix PC 3200. AMD Athlon 64 3400+. Retail ATI Radeon X850XT PE AGP

Jan 24, 2003, 04:20 AM	#3
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	Bummer dude. Sorry to hear that Dom, I HATE messing with messed up drives! It takes forever just to figured out they're f*cked. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Jan 24, 2003, 02:43 PM	#5
misterman87 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: New Jersey Posts: 52 Rep Power: 0	Hi hey guys how are you doing well let me tell you about alittle problem i had with two of the same drives the 120gig wd 8mb i had to rma the both of them they would freeze inbetween programs and one of them would make noise and took a long time to format also so after i got them back i sold them both and purchased two seagates i think those drives have some problems and nobody is saying anything maybe we can get some people to talk about these drives and get some feedback LOL

Jan 24, 2003, 04:16 PM	#6
DriveEuro HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Gurnee Illinois Posts: 4,677 Rep Power: 0	I know that is out of place....but....MisterMan typed that whole response without punctuaction or anything other that a single space....Just had to point it out. __________________ [color=orange]ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [color=black]-[/color] 2.4C --> 3300mhz [color=black]-[/color] Mushkin PC3200 at 220 5-2-2-2 (cpu limited) [color=black]-[/color] BBAti 9800Pro at 430/375 [/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]01[/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]03[/color] 16001200 12801024

Jan 25, 2003, 12:15 PM	#8
PopSIWaReZ DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Love my WD I love my WD 120JB, and never had a problem with WD before. My other drive though a Samsung SP4004H, was DOA. But samsung sendt me a new one, and it has been working great since. (had it for one and a half years now). So now you know c",) Late...

Jan 25, 2003, 01:33 PM	#10
ToshiroOC Unbiased. Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 4,812 Rep Power: 0	ROFLMFAO! Billy, you truly are special __________________ [img][/img] [color=White]Peace be with you, Joe.[/color] Driverheaven Staff Member (Supermoderator)

Jan 25, 2003, 01:40 PM	#12
ToshiroOC Unbiased. Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 4,812 Rep Power: 0	Sure, $10000 under the 2nd leftmost bench in the Alameda station, brown suitcase, cash $20's and $10's, no weaponry... after that, we can talk __________________ [img][/img] [color=White]Peace be with you, Joe.[/color] Driverheaven Staff Member (Supermoderator)

Jan 25, 2003, 07:15 PM	#13
DriveEuro HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Gurnee Illinois Posts: 4,677 Rep Power: 0	I type in a rush..........bah, now i look dum (HAHAHAH DUMB!) I am so smar , s m r t , I MEAN S M A R T! __________________ [color=orange]ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [color=black]-[/color] 2.4C --> 3300mhz [color=black]-[/color] Mushkin PC3200 at 220 5-2-2-2 (cpu limited) [color=black]-[/color] BBAti 9800Pro at 430/375 [/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]01[/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]03[/color] 16001200 12801024

Jan 25, 2003, 11:31 PM	#14
reno Painlord of Ichor Join Date: May 2002 Location: bloinkin! Posts: 1,610 Rep Power: 0	dfg Your power supply is lacking in power, and yes, I know it's an enermax, but with your OC and your drives, your fans, you're REALLY taxing that "350W" PSU. If both drives failed, it's not the WD. And just to let you know, formatting 120 gigs on ANY drive will take a loooong time. If it wasn't making constant "spin up" wooshing sounds, wasn't clicking on and off incessantly, and wasn't "grinding," the drive is most likely fine. Adding that second drive seems like what brought your PSU to it's knees if BOTH drives then failed...I bet if you would have disconnected the other drive the JB would have worked just fine... I say this, because I've experienced this on my Duron system with a 250W PSU, but it was with a 20GB maxtor + 30GB WD...the maxtor refused to let the system run properly...except when the WD was detatched.

Jan 26, 2003, 02:25 PM	#15
misterman87 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: New Jersey Posts: 52 Rep Power: 0	Hi Again Sorry about my punctuaction,have a nice day. PIV 2.66B@3.2 C1 stepping cooler Swiftech MXC4000 Albatron PX845PE PRO II Blue Corsair XMS PC3500 CL2 512mb set @ 2.66 Turbo ATI 8500 128mb 275/275 Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum Asus CD-RW 52X24X52X Pioneer 106S Slot DVD 2X Seagates 80Gig Barracuda IV ata 100 7200rpm Custom see through Antec true power 550watt p/s Antec Aluminum 1040 case with side window with fans and top window Two UV black lights Windows XP Pro I May be interested in selling this system looking to get a MAC system.This system is about a month old,so let me know what you guys think Thanks guys have a nice day all. Last edited by misterman87; Jan 26, 2003 at 10:27 PM.

Jan 28, 2003, 05:52 PM	Thread Starter #17
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Well, I got an e-mail from WD this morning saying that they will ship my replacement HD out in 5-7 buisness-days. I guess this means they found something worng with it, other-wise they would of said they were returning it, right?

Jan 28, 2003, 06:33 PM	Thread Starter #18
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Brand-new drive on it's way, secound-day delivery!

Feb 3, 2003, 03:00 AM	Thread Starter #19
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	After getting the new drive the problems didn't go-away. I tried lowering my CPU clockspeed back down to default and the harddrive works fine. It seems it is my PSU becasue I was also having problems overclocking my video card. Thanks, Reno.

Feb 3, 2003, 05:41 PM	#20
dai DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 126 Rep Power: 0	i saw an article somewhere a couple of months ago that listed what power each component required,so that you could work out what size power supply you required.has anyone else seen this or anything equivelent