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Posted: **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?

Posted: **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

Posted: **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

Posted: **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.