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Mr Colt · 01-04-2010, 03:15 AM

the 500gb drive had a win7 partition and a data storage parition the 250gb was a WinXP partition. the 500gb at the time was in win7 mode and had active torrents on the data half partition when i got the crash.

I am not sure of my firmware any more, nore do i care since i am using the drives for parts basically.

both drives i have used for a long time now the 250 for around say 2 years and the 500 for about a year and half, maybe firmware is an issuse but due to the face that first it was making sounds then it was very different louder sounds(that a hdd never should make) right before it crashed makes me believe its hardware failure like a bearing, which also makes sence since none of the seatool scans pick up on any thing.

i decided to sang my PVR's Western Digital Black 750gb instead of waiting for the 1tb version, and use the 1tb for added storage when it comes, until then since i am fairly confident i backed up everything i wanted to back up, i am going to use the 500gb as my new pvr hdd and if it fails soon after no big loss, and i will have found out which one was dead.

Pin out of place huh? well what if its not making any sounds now any ways?

since they both "seem" to sounds normal, tho i some times i think i hear an odd spin up sound every random few hours, and since i backed up every thing im on to my next issue that i posted:
while trying to back everything up on to the pvr hdd and installed win 7 on it, it was still running it the esata case i put it in, then when i took it out of the case, and put where the old hdd was and on regular sata port, i would not boot passed the win log screen, and the more i tryed to fix it the worse it got. i had to trick it. its all in my other post if you have any ideas as to what went wrong.

THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP.

01-04-2010, 03:15 AM	#19
Mr Colt I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Chilliwack Posts: 577 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Failed 24 Times in 3 Posts	the 500gb drive had a win7 partition and a data storage parition the 250gb was a WinXP partition. the 500gb at the time was in win7 mode and had active torrents on the data half partition when i got the crash. I am not sure of my firmware any more, nore do i care since i am using the drives for parts basically. both drives i have used for a long time now the 250 for around say 2 years and the 500 for about a year and half, maybe firmware is an issuse but due to the face that first it was making sounds then it was very different louder sounds(that a hdd never should make) right before it crashed makes me believe its hardware failure like a bearing, which also makes sence since none of the seatool scans pick up on any thing. i decided to sang my PVR's Western Digital Black 750gb instead of waiting for the 1tb version, and use the 1tb for added storage when it comes, until then since i am fairly confident i backed up everything i wanted to back up, i am going to use the 500gb as my new pvr hdd and if it fails soon after no big loss, and i will have found out which one was dead. Pin out of place huh? well what if its not making any sounds now any ways? since they both "seem" to sounds normal, tho i some times i think i hear an odd spin up sound every random few hours, and since i backed up every thing im on to my next issue that i posted: while trying to back everything up on to the pvr hdd and installed win 7 on it, it was still running it the esata case i put it in, then when i took it out of the case, and put where the old hdd was and on regular sata port, i would not boot passed the win log screen, and the more i tryed to fix it the worse it got. i had to trick it. its all in my other post if you have any ideas as to what went wrong. THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP.