problem with new IDE HDD?

Question

i just hooked up a new IDE PATA 500GB HDD to my computer. was working fine for a few days, and today i woke up and i had gotten a "cyclic redundancy" error on utorrent, which was writing to the drive. i forced the downloads to start again, which they did, but now whenever i'm writing data to the drive, my computer responds very slowly. i ran a western digital diagnostic tool on the drive (it is a western digital caviar blue drive) and the quick test failed on the drive. another thing to note is that the western digital diagnostic tool recognizes the new drive as SATA, but it does not connect using SATA cables, it connects via IDE. does anyone know what is wrong with my drive and whether or not it is fixable?

Answer 1

If it's new, I would RMA it back to WD.

Answer 2

Yup, IDE doesn't support partitions above 128Gigs.



Either seperate the drive into smaller than 125Gig spaces or connect it with a SATA cable to a SATA controller.



This is the problem especially if Your system is older than 2 years, or if the EIDE version for the controller is older than that on less-expensive models even with Vista/Win7.



If necessary, go to www.geeks.com and pick up a SATA controller for about $12.00 plus shipping and it will recoignize the full 500Gigs without any further read/write errors.



Sorry, also just read again it's a PATA drive - a new card will also have the chipset for the PATA connector that will support larger partitions.





Good Luck!.

Answer 3

deploy it as a Slave on an older laptop that has a IDE HD as grasp. Then burn your archives to a CD or DVD and you are able to placed them on any laptop you like after that. FYI a CPU isn't a working laptop or laptop. that's the proper Processing Unit interior the laptop(the brains)