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This is kinda weird maybe someone can help

 

I have 3 hard drives and the WD work fine no problems but the seagate is acting funny

 

Everytime that I copy or extract data to the drive my CPU raises to almost 100% and sometimes my computer freezes. This only happens with this drive.

 

I recieved a replacement awhile back but it happened again

 

Now this is where it gets weird to me

 

I tried to format the drive and start fresh

 

One partition deleted fine but the first partition on the seagate drive gave an error like this:

 

cannot delete. it may be configured as a system, boot, or pagefile volume, or, to hold a crashdump file

 

so I forced deleted it and am formating right now to see if the problem persistes.

 

The really strange part is I have a Trueimage of XP and after I Trueimage may WD drive 160GB I won;t have the problem with the CPU for a couple of days. Then High CPU again.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

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have you checked out the S.M.A.R.T. report from the HDD?

Your drive may have a problem that a S.M.A.R.T utility can tell you about.

Here is one of many utilities that use the technology.

 

cheers

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Just tried the Reformat and still didn't work CPU still goes to 100% when copying

 

Installed the program that you suggested and I don't know how to check the SMART report on here

 

I checked the Health and there seems to be a yellow line through

(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 97 0 OK

 

Does this mean anything

 

Thanks for the response

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Just tried the Reformat and still didn't work CPU still goes to 100% when copying

 

Installed the program that you suggested and I don't know how to check the SMART report on here

 

I checked the Health and there seems to be a yellow line through

(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 97 0 OK

 

Does this mean anything

 

Thanks for the response

 

You are going to have to go into the BIOS --> Advanced BIOS Features-->third from bottom entry and enable the HDD SMART option.

 

Is that an IDE or SATA HDD?

 

cheers

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