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graham01 · 07-07-2008, 07:43 PM

I have a new Samsung 500GB hard drive which used to work fine and suddenly decided to die, i have tried it in several machines with windows xp and vista, this is what it does:

on all machines tested, when searching for hard drives on turning on the machine it takes about 2 minutes and doesnt even find it

on some machines the operating system wont load, sometimes it crashes while loading, sometimes it doesnt even get to the loading stage.

on other machines the operating system will load after a while but still no sign of the hard drive.

i have also tried 3 other cables which work for other hard drives.

the disk model is HD501LJ and S-ATA

hope someone can help me

thanks

07-07-2008, 07:43 PM	#1 (permalink) Top
graham01 Geek Trainee Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2 Status: Offline	Samsung Hard Drive Help I have a new Samsung 500GB hard drive which used to work fine and suddenly decided to die, i have tried it in several machines with windows xp and vista, this is what it does: on all machines tested, when searching for hard drives on turning on the machine it takes about 2 minutes and doesnt even find it on some machines the operating system wont load, sometimes it crashes while loading, sometimes it doesnt even get to the loading stage. on other machines the operating system will load after a while but still no sign of the hard drive. i have also tried 3 other cables which work for other hard drives. the disk model is HD501LJ and S-ATA hope someone can help me thanks