Over the weekend I was playing around with two WD 150 Raptor drives. On my MB I have two Sata connection called High Speed Sata connections. Which by the way is a joke. Anyway I needed a extra Sata drive. The six I am using now are fine but I needed a 7th for a project I am working on. To change this dual Sata ya needed to go into the BIOS and do a few changes to make it a single Sata port, when ya do this you loose one Sata port...I don't know why but this is how it is on the Asus MB. Anyway I always do a full format using the program Wipe Disk. I noticed when trying to format this disk it would get to 1% and freeze. I also did a check disk in the program and it showed dirty clusters and would also freeze. So I decided to boot into Windows XP Pro and then hook up the disk to see it XP could do a check disk or format. It would start and then a message would come up and say an error. After I clicked on the error, the drive would no longer appear in My Computer or in the Computer Management area any more. The only way I could get it to show back up was to reboot and move it to another Sata port and the same thing would happen...lol. I then decided to download a couple of drive programs from WD and let there programs test the HD.Same thing would happen . There message would say unable to write zero's to the HD. When using another one of there programs it would also say an error happened and would also lock up. So I said what the heck, forget the formatting part let's see if I can just install an OS on the HD without formatting. Once it started to load the OS it would also get a message that an error occurred and install was unable to complete. I have a few other HD's laying around and just said what the heck and installed another and all went fine. Before throwing it away I'm gonna call WD to see if they have any input in this problem. I don't know what kind of warranty I have on this Raptor so I won't be loosing anything other than a phone call and wasting time. You guys think it is bad...Mike
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