Installations are crashing - can't find HDD

[xao92k]

Okay so I can't install anything to my HDD via my DVD-ROM. Everytime I try and install any games it gets to around 5% then all applications stop responding and I have to manually reboot (either that or it BSOD and auto-restarts).

I can always install games using Daemon tools and ISO images with no problems at all. If I try to create an ISO image of the disc I have in my DVD-ROM drive using Undisker then it gets to about 5% and crashes my PC. If I try and CTRL+C and Ctrl+V the files from the disc to my HDD it gets to 5% and crashes again.

I have a Western Digital 300Gb SATA2 HDD and an LG DVD-ROM drive. Currently running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I have started having this problem around early January (was fine before that) but haven't bothered to sort it as I hardly ever use the DVD-ROM drive.

And feedback would be a great help.

 

[Route44]

How old is the drive? Any BSODs?

 

[xao92k]

Sorry I meant to add that when the machine reboots it doesn't detect my HDD, I have to turn it off then on again and then it detects it.

Also the DVD-ROM drive reads movies/folders/directories perfectly.

The HDD is about a year old and I never get to see the BSOD as it just reboots on contact with one.

 

[Route44]

Western Digital has a harddrive utility for diagnosing their harddrives that you can download from their website.

I strongly suggest you not only run the S.M.A.R.T. test but certainly the longer tests as well. If you get any BSODs...

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