2009-09-21, 21:58
The symptoms you describe can be caused by problems other than just a faulty hard drive.
A faulty memory module can corrupt the data before it gets written to the disk.
A power supply could cause the disk to rest during a write, but not be enought to reset the whole PC.
a SATA cable can cause errors that are not always detected.
You definatley want to test the disk indavidually. LiveCD with the disk manufacturers test software is the best way to go.
If that fail to find a fault, do a memory test as well.
A faulty memory module can corrupt the data before it gets written to the disk.
A power supply could cause the disk to rest during a write, but not be enought to reset the whole PC.
a SATA cable can cause errors that are not always detected.
You definatley want to test the disk indavidually. LiveCD with the disk manufacturers test software is the best way to go.
If that fail to find a fault, do a memory test as well.
