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HDD trouble

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First post, by Kouwes

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Im building another PC with stuff I grabbed out of my stash, with AMD K6-2 400 cpu.
Anyway, the 4.3GB Quantum HDD does have some bad clusters but the weird thing is: when it attempts to read that sector the PC immediately powers down.
I found that out while using scandisk‘s repair function. How can that happen, sounds almost like physical intern damage that causes a short.

Not that I care about this particular HDD, I already installed another one. Actually the same model but without bad sectors.

Reply 1 of 3, by Disruptor

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Perhaps an actuator does weird things when trying to recalibrate to re-read this sector.
But basically your disk should first give smoke signs before shutting down the power supply.

Reply 2 of 3, by st31276a

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Is it AT or ATX?

AT can only shut down due to overcurrent, the psu usually makes a whining noise when it does that.

ATX complicates things a bit, acpi can also interfere, although I struggle to see how.