Sata Hd crashes

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:20 pm

I have a 80gb Sata Hd (Seagate Barracuda) its used as a storage HD mainly for videos. However when I go into the hard to play videos my computer will freeze and I have to reboot

my question is do I need to set this as a slave drive? there is no connector clip in the back to set it between master/slave

Any help would be great

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:27 pm

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?v ... ale=en-US#

thats her

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:39 am

Configuring master/slave/cable select is a thing of the past...left behind with the old PATA drive type.

I would check the cable connections, see that the power for the drive isn't split up too many times to other devices, check to see if your motherboard has updated firmware, and run a checkdisk on the drive..perhaps even Seagates diagnostic utility.

cchooper · Post by **cchooper** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:15 pm

I had this happen once when I *also* had a decent-sized video directory. I never did figure out the outcome, I deleted my Videos directory (from a command prompt) and never had the problem again :-) It's possible there is some bad data mixed somewhere in those videos and it is giving Windows hell.

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:44 pm

It sounds like more of a problem with the client computer rather than the hard drive the videos are stored on.

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:02 am

I had a similar problem with an external drive that would crash windows anytime you brought up a video directory in the thumbnail view. It turned out to be an outdated xvid driver causing the issue...

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:14 am

thx for the help, ill look into it more

BOWTYE8 · Post by **BOWTYE8** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 5:45 am

Indy wrote:I had a similar problem with an external drive that would crash windows anytime you brought up a video directory in the thumbnail view. It turned out to be an outdated xvid driver causing the issue...

Yes this has happened to me as well...One day all good..The next when I goto the vid directory windows explorer would crash...Sometimes a reboot, lockup, or just close windows explorer.
I had to reload the xivd drivers like mentioned. I went to koepi xvid driver package and has been working well.