western hard drive

[ruth29]

I have this hard drive which I have used for three or four yrs formatted once it is 10gb.
My mother board went so I built a new computer thought I might keep my hard drive for awhile but when I went to format it it just wouldn`t format finally got it to but found some bad clusters but fixed them so it said and it took almost 2 hours to format the processor was 1.7gb

Anyway once formatted I loaded my windows 98 se got in on everything at first fine than it didn`t work hardly at all so I turned computer off and when I went back on couldn`t get into hard drive at all said no operating system. Put a start up disk in and than it couldn`t find my C drive at all .
I went into BIOS and it was listed as being there. I than thought there may be some reason it wouldn`t work with my new computer that is motherboard and processor.
I bought a new hard drive for it but I still have this other one and I tried it on another computer which has a 400mgprocessor. when I turn on computer and let it run it gets to where it should load it says os not found.
I used the startup disk and it still tells me that their is no C drive even though it is found on the BIOS. Question is do you know what problem could be or do you think the hard drive is finished.
When I put FDISK it states I have the wrong perimeters so presume it is not under C. I put a:\ FDISK C:
Am interested in what you think it could be. Thanks

[Cricket]

Go to the Western Digital website and download the diagnostic utility and test the drive with it. Sounds like the drive is failing.

:) Cricket

[GaryRouth]

Hi Ruth, Hi Cricket

. . . here's the link to the tool Cricket mentioned:
http://support.wdc.com/download/dlg/dlgdiag11.zip

. . . Gary

[KHT]

You said new build. What are the specs? Are you sure the drive is jumpered correctly? If you are using a 40 pin-80 wire IDE cable and have it set to CS, try setting it to Master or check the jumper settings for your particular model on WD`s website for your configuration. (standalone, master/slave) CS is not a "given". It depends whether the cable, drive, and mobo support it and then it can be flaky in some cases especially if one of the components, in your case, HDD is of an earlier model.

Also make sure all the jumper and BIOS settings are correct for your new build.

[morriswindgate]

Fixed Bad Sectors=Bad Sectors=Hard Drive Failing>Run the Diagnostic Software.

[ruth29]

I do thank you for all the advice I have n ow downloaded and have the western hard drive diagnostic info on a floppy so now have to get back to an older machine to try it or may do so on my new one but have it working with new hard drive so expect will leave it alone.
I did not know that western hard drives diagnostic disk would work on all older hard drives as well. Thought it was just for the new large ones.
I did learn something and will post back after I do the test. Thanks

[glc]

If the 11.0 won't work on the old drive, post back - WD has pulled the old 2.8 DLG from what I can see - and I have a copy somewhere. That version works on all AC-series drives.

[ruth29]

The 11.0 didn`t work so would appreciate the copy you have
if you could tell me how to get it from you . Thanks

[glc]

I found a public download:

http://melrom.com/files/dlgmaker.zip

Extract the exe out of the zip, put a blank floppy in your drive, and run the exe. This MUST be done on a Win95/98/ME machine, it will NOT work on a 2K/XP machine. It will make a bootable floppy, you need to boot with it and run the diagnostics. Once the floppy is made, it doesn't matter what OS is on the machine that has the drive which you are testing.