hard drive gone bad?

khknin · Post by **khknin** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:57 pm

Hi,

I erased my internal disk with 7-Pass Erase option and few hours later I get a message (I forgot what it said but I think it said "Overtime or Overload" not quite sure). Now I hear my hard drive "tic tic" and I just took my hard drive out. The hard drive was not even a year old. Is my hard drive gone bad? Anyone had this problem?

gregwhartley · Post by **gregwhartley** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:54 pm

PC or Mac? If it's PC you can download IBM/Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test to test the drive. Usually a consistent "tic tic" means a bad HDD. Just google Drive Fitness Test and burn the .iso to a disc and boot off of it. if it's Mac use the hardware diag test that comes on the OS install disc.

Greg

khknin · Post by **khknin** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:50 am

Greg,

I'm using G5 2Ghz. The problem is that the hard drive is not mounting. My G5 doesn't know it's there. Any suggestion?

Thanks again,

khk

baanes · Post by **baanes** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:15 pm

Can you see it in disk utility? If so, try deleting any partitions on it and recreating them. If not, you might be screwed.