Has anyone tried the new-ish Seagate Momentus 5400.3 (using perpendicular recording technology) yet? I bought a 120GB unit today and I've been hitting BSODs during the XP installation process... getting "Stop 0x0000007B" errors just as the copying finishes and Windows is about to start up (just before the select partition screen if I'm not mistaken). Trying all sorts of different installation methods now... XP boot disks, booting from DOS and running setup from HDD etc. Could it be an incompatibility problem with the host bus adapter? Any ideas or experience?
I don't believe there would be an incompatibility, but I only used a Momentus 5400.2 myself. Did you try running things like MemTest and the Seagate test utilities?
Appreciate your response. You're right, HDD tests from BIOS and Seagate utility ran fine and it wasn't a compability issue. Encountered the same problem when I plugged in 60GB Momentus 5400.2. Finally managed to install XP after plugging back in the DVD-ROM (funny that it kept crashing my system a few months back but now works ok).
Installation "hung" when booting in DOS and installing from HDD. BSOD when using XP boot disks. I'm lucky the DVD-ROM returned from the dead. I guess once it really dies out, I'll be hard put to ever do a clean install again.