Hard drive failure

Question

**Dell Dimention 4700, running XP, about 2 1/2 years old** Hi. My hard drive appears to have given up the ghost. This happened about a year ago and i lost everything and had to reinstall windows again...which is probably what i'll have to do again. I am getting a usual blue screen witha stop error.   stop 0x000000ed   (0x823cbb40, 0xc000009c, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)   Same screen appears when i try to start up in safe mode   I ran a hard drive diagnostic and it returned an 'error code 7'   I cant remember the procedure to access said hard drive (which is a maxtor by the way) so that i can wipe/reconfigue or whatever it is that i have to do so that i can reboot from my recovery CD.   Please help.   Tony

ManyDimensions · Answer

I must agree with ejn63   This is what Microsoft suggests.....   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315403   Personally I would just get another drive and start over as previously mentioned.

zorander1 · Answer

Ok guys, thanx very much for your input. Any suggestions as to a decent drive at a decent price because i have read on a few forums that the maxtor is not one of the best and prone to problems like this.   Tony

ejn63 · Answer

There's no point trying to recover on a faulty drive. Replace the drive, reload and patch Windows, and connect the drive as a secondary if there's data on it you need to access. You will need a second SATA data cable to do this.

Then wipe and recycle the drive - it's faulty.

ejn63 · Answer

Seagate, WD, Samsung, Hitachi are the others who make desktop drives.

Your data is as safe on any hard drive, as your latest backup - no matter who made it, any drive can fail without warning at any time.

zorander1 · Answer

Thank you :manvery-happy:

Richard Roussel · Answer

I replaced my 2nd sata hd twice on my 4700

1st was replaced by Dell,
and second by local pcStore...

they recommend i add a fan because of know problems w/4700..
..so i started reading threads in this forum and agreed.

I purchased a 9.2 cm cooling fan and installed it at the front of the pc where
the hdrive's bay was.
I left the original fan (back of pc) blowing inwards (like originally designed)
so i installed the front fan to exaust from the front.

Now, for 1st time since i own the pc, i can physically touch the hd's without burning my fingers...
I've positioned the hd's along the bottom of the p.c. in their metal boxes because that keeps them elevated about 1/4" form the bottom plate of the pc.

now the air comes in from the cpu fan and exhausts from the front.

I can actually feel the heet coming out of the box..

i probably solved my hard drive problems by ventilating the pc.

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