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I've got a MSI6340 mobo, a month old Seagate Barracuda ATAIV harddrive and i'm running WindowsXP. A changed my harddrive a month ago getting rid of my old one a 20GB Quantm Fireball.After a week I got a 32k bad sector! I formmated the drive using the tool provided on Seagate site and everything was ok. I reinstaled WindowsXP on a 10GB NTFS partition (previously I was using a 40GB Fat32 partition) and the rest of the drive I formated using the FAT32 file sistem. After a few days on a standard reboot the system got stuck for 30sec (with the hdd led lighted)right after the reboot, then everything returned to normal but in event viewer I got the Device0 has a bad block error, and the bad sectors are back in the NTFS partition but not in the same position as previous. After reformating the drive (the bad sectors are gone now) and reinstaling windows, yesterday the same problem occurs almost identical except that the bad are in the fat32 partition now!!!My mainboard is with the latest bios updates. My previous hard drive, a 20GB Quantum worked fine. Do you have any clue about the cause of the problem? Is the hard drive? Or the EIDE controler on the mainboard? Is WindowsXP's fault?
Thank you for your time.
Thank you for your time.