Can't full format under winxp, drive clicks

Hi there,

I recently purchased a Samsung Spinpoint T166 500 GB Hard Drive

Sata -300.

I couldn't get past 7% in full format using WinXp's setup. The drive began clicking at 7% so i returned it.

Got the same hard drive, this time, i can't format past 8% and it clicks at 8%. However, i can easly do a quick format.

Can you guys give me some insight to this issue?

Thanks in advance

Regards,
vertozia

 

personally, i'd DBAN the drive, this involves downloading DBAN & burning the downloaded .iso image to CD / DVD and boot the CD you burned with only new HDD attached (Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB) & DBAN will totally blank (wiipe) the HDD, removing any problems too

Edit: DBAN will probably take 12 hours to completely wipe 500GB, then the HDD will be like new & ready to format or you could look at the manufacturers website for their own utilities

 

Id would turn smart monitoring on in BIOS and download one of the programs which will give you a SMART monitoring report. From this you will get a detailed look at the state of the drive.

 

thanks a lot, i'll do everything you guys told me.

regarding DBAN, i tried it on the previous hardisk, its a no go.

i'll give this one a shot, but in the end i'll probably end up exchanging the drive for another brand.

is Seagate the best in the market right now?

thanks again

 

i think so, opinions differ widely but personally i prefer Seagate

 

DBAN had no success, SMART option had no real effect

 

SMART doesn't have an effect. It tells you if your drive is knackered.

Use this program
PassMark DiskCheckup - SMART hard drive monitoring utility

and this table
S.M.A.R.T. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

but i have no real use of that without Windows, i need to full format it first