Bad Hard Drive?

[mallett]

Hi everyone,

So here's the problem, I have a new Samsung F3 1TB hard drive and it doesn't seem to like my computer very much. I manage to get it all formatted and ready to use in Windows (Vista x64 Home Premium) but when I try to transfer any data to it, especially files of the larger type, it gets partially through and then stops altogether and just sits there looking at me. I only get my computer back if I cancel the transfer, which takes some time in itself, but then I'm left with no data on there!

I then tried plugging the drive into another SATA port and things seemed much better, as in files would actually transfer, but at much lower speeds then I would expect, and looking at the file transfer box it appears that it keeps stopping and starting again.

So basically I am now stumped. Is this a problem with the hard drive, which by the way is the second as I returned the first thinking it was knackered for doing the above, which would make me the most unlucky man in the world (slight exaggeration) getting two duff drives in a row, especially being Samsungs! Or is this a sing of my motherboard being rubbish and dieing an annoying death?

BTW, the motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P965-DS3 v1.0 with f14 BISO, the newest available.

Any help / ideas / potions you have to offer would be very welcome.

Thanks,
Jason

[dirky]

Any errors in eventvwr? Have you run any diag on it?
How old is the mobo?

[peterb]

There have been stories about some Samsung drives incompatable with various mobos, and also file transfer speeds with Vista. You might find this link of use - your mobo appears to be one of the ones listed.

http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/inde...hardware-list/

[mallett]

Any errors in eventvwr? Have you run any diag on it?
How old is the mobo?

Nothing in event viewer, have tried to run both MHDD and ES-TOOL on it but neither worked, MHDD didn't find any of my drives and ES-TOOL wouldn't even run, which has made me think its the mobo even more. It's 3 1/2 years old btw.

There have been stories about some Samsung drives incompatable with various mobos, and also file transfer speeds with Vista. You might find this link of use - your mobo appears to be one of the ones listed.

http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/inde...hardware-list/

Thanks for the info, it's just really confirming what I was starting to come around to, I need a new motherboard. Luckily my bday is coming up and my parents have asked for some ideas

Anyone else know of anything that will confirm this diagnoses?

[shaithis]

Anyone else know of anything that will confirm this diagnoses?

If it's a vista compatibility, I guess you could install XP or 2K and check transfer speeds.

[mallett]

If it's a vista compatibility, I guess you could install XP or 2K and check transfer speeds.

Well I did plug the first drive into my Dad's XP Pro machine and on transferring the first file it BSODed a few times until I did a long format via computer management when it seemed to start working ok, if a little on the slow side but I figured that could be down to the very very old drive I was transferring from. But with returning it to my Vista system I was having the same problems as before.

That sort of made me think that part of the problem was that Vista wasn't formatting properly, and a fresh install hasn't fixed it either.

[apmallett]

If you can brave the snow come and see if it works in my machine. Or you can take back the 7 disk I just got back and try it with that