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HP Pavilion xt973 Fried Another Hard Drive????
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Posted by: rrack
Ok. A little over a year ago I worked on my mom's system, a 1.1ghz Pavilion xt973, and found that the factory 60 gig was just DOA. The system wouldn't even recognize it. I replaced it with a brand new Western Digital 120 gig and reinstalled everything with the restore CDs. Well, it started acting wierd a few weeks ago and I finally got the blue no boot volume window. I managed to reformat it after a gazillion tries and got everything reinstalled. It still seemed wierd but worked. I had also put in a PCI cooling blower because I thought heat may have been part of the problem due to the poor circulation design of this case.
Well, it seems to have done it again. I pulled the HD and plugged it into another system and tried to run Norton and Chkdsk. It says to back up everything and that the disk is bad. What is going on? I've got the latest virus defs with Norton. Could heat have been the problem and did too much damage before I put in the fan? A bad motherboard?? Or what?? What can cause hard drives just to go bad?? Should I put yet another HD in this cash machine and risk HP costing me even more money?
And just my luck. The warranty ran out on the new drive 2 months ago.
Any tips or info would be greatly appreciated.
Frustrated.
Robert
Posted by: thtadthtshldntb
Something is frying the hds. Check your household power supply, btw are you using some sort of UPS or high level surge protector?
Posted by: redwench
use the hard drive diagnostic software provided by the manufacturer. if that says its bad, toss it. and yes, its possible that the psu and/or local power supply is the culprit. you could also just have gotten unlucky, it did last through the warranty period after all.
Posted by: thepreacha619
ya, thats really weird. new everything i reccomend, with surge protectors on everything.
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