Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[URPradhan]

Hi Friends

I have Seage 320 GB ATA (ST3320620A) internal HDD and I'm using WinXP SP2/Asus K8N MB.

I'm not able to boot my PC by pressing the power button of my PC. As soon as I press the power button it goes power off. And it repeats for indefinite pressing. If my luck is with me it will boot after several button pressing, may be 30-40 pressing !!! And it makes more noise when it is running.

But, if I unplug the HDD internal power cable my PC boots normally but shows the message "Disk not found/Invalid boot disk". Again when I connects the HDD power the same above problem comes.

So it boils down to me that "The Seagate HDD has definitely some problem".

Please help me.

[Melonade]

run seatools on the drive

[URPradhan]

I have tested my HDD with the SeaTools and its FAILING in SMART test. But other tests are PASSED. What to do next ?

[Melonade]

smart errors are bad, id replace the drive if you can

[URPradhan]

The disk is sometimes working and sometimes not working with SMART error on Seatools test.
What to do now ? Should I replace it?
Can I ask Seagate to replace with a SATA HDD with my ATA HDD of same size ?

Thank you