My hard drive has recently developed a problem At ramdom times it stops spinning and keeps trying to spin up again and my computer basicly freezes or crashes. The drive works sometimes and I can access all the data but it dies everyonce in a while. I think my other partition on it works fine. Anyone know how to fix it?
You might have a problem with the power connections and cables. There is also a remote possibillity that your power supply is overburdened and that when the system requires a lot of power suddently the hard disk would spin down do to the loss of current. Another possibillity is that there is a flaw in the hard disk's firmware and that it must be upgraded. I would recommend checking your cables first, then the powersupply, and finally call the manufacturer and inquire about such problems with your version of the firmware. Remember, do the things are the easiest first when you try to fix anything. Look for the obvious and then when all possibillities are exhaused look to the not-so-obvious. [link=http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage/browse_thread/thread/d00c70424f58c59a/61cf311e85b651e5?lnk=st&q=Hard+drive+spins+sometimes&rnum=3&hl=en#61cf311e85b651e5] Source[/link]
yeah, probably the molex connector (HDD power connector) try using a different (HDD power) connector then try a different IDE cable
