I have a new retail Segate PATA/100 (ST3500641A-RK) 500 GB 16mb Cache internal HDD. I have tryed to format it with windows, segate software, and other software, and it always fails or says it had bad sectors. Am I doing something wrong? or is this HDD a junker out of the box. Ive never had to replace one before so im not sure how to check. Its pretty quiet, but just wont format with any software.

Hi Venix, from what your describing it very well could be a bad hard drive. I would replace it. Let us know how it goes.

Bad sector 100% faulty get it replace bad sectors spread like cancer . You are correct faulty out of the box!

Ok, well I had it replaced, and this one is doing exactly the same thing now. Im not sure if they just make a bad product or what, but this has been hell. Im almost up to month 3 with out being able to use my PC like I need to.

Was the PC working ok before with it's original hard drive? If the drive has and IDE interface maybe your IDE controller on your mainboard is playing up.

my old HDD still works fine, its going out, but works enough to do anything. Im trying to add this new HDD before the old one gives out.