hard drive died for no reason...help?

[K3Y]

Right, first the setup its in:

1* 80gb hitatchi sata --- Windows Drive (C: )

1* 300GB Western Digital Sata --- Main Storage (E: )

1* 500gb Samsung Spinpoint sata --- Secondary Storage (F: )

my audio drivers had been known in the past to not like adobe premier and cause bsods, but no damage caused, just reboot and remember to change the drivers to newer ones (once id figured out that was the problem) later.

but, on the current install, i forgot all about it, loaded adobe premier, boom blue screen, but this time it seemed to do something to the 300gb Wd.

after a few hours of diagnosing (restarts during boot up, POST, or windows load, even in windows setup) it seemed that whenever the western digital was plugged in it would cause all this. Tried all different connectors from mobo and psu so it certainly looks like a hdd problem

the strange bit is, the WD hard drive wasnt even in use at the time....and the sad bit it had lots and lots of stuff on *cry*

i got a friend to try it, and whenever its in his pc it just causes reboots.

Any ideas? Either some crazy salvage ideas or crazy ways to destroy it for all the grief its caused =]

cheers

 

[Mr. Smith]

As you have tried it in an alternative PC and that PC has the same issues I think it has crapped out on you.

Weird thing is it isn't even the boot drive so I don't understand how this is happening.

To recover the data you need to be able to connect the HDD to a PC without the PC turning off so... Sadly I think you have lost the drive. Return to manuf. under warranty?

 

[Pseudonym]

could you try it as an external HDD? that might allow you to access and rescue all you stuff.

If not then i gues RMA if possible.

 

[Rastalovich]

Tbh, I`d be trying to get them into a pc with xp installed, as 2nd/3rd drives and get chkdsk running.

U will get driver install reboots, but they should be requested and not forced.

Either way, get the drives to settle down so u can work on them.

If it`s 100% reboot with them in, try safemode. Try a pc with windows installed and nothing else.

If nothing settles them down, I`m busting out the dos utility cd myself and seeing what I can do just to calm them down.

Thank god ur not raiding >.<

 

[K3Y]

update: windows boots fine w/o the hdd in. however when its in, i get to the stage of loading the desktop, then blue screen specifying:

"nfts.sys address #73... base at f73..., datestamp ..."

then does a memory dump.

anyone spot anything?

or, i remember originally discovering the audio conflict with adobe premier, someone much smarter guided me through reading the dumps to the source of the problem....maybe an option?