Bad Hard Drive?

[Fulmar]

So one of my weekend projects is to get one of my old boxes up and running and test out using FreeNAS.  This is my second attempt trying to get FreeNAS to work (I don't recall why I gave up the last time.  I'm using the first computer I ever built (a P3 933mhz, FIC FA-13 motherboard, 512mb SDRAM) and I've got several old IDE hard drives lying around and the first one I'm using is an old 10gb Maxtor.  Now I was able to get FreeNAS to install and boot off the CD, but when I try to boot off the hard drive the first 2-3 times the system would hang on one of the loading command lines (I don't recall what the code was).  And after that, every attempted boot wouldn't even get to that point.  The system starting hanging on the "Verifying DMI Pool."  Now you could be saying to yourself "just trying a new hard dirve," but I've got to run some errands today and I'm hoping for some input before I tackle it again.

And for those not familiar with FreeNAS (www.freenas.org).

[Fulmar]

Must have been, tried a new HD and booted fine.

[wabbit]

When you installed windows on the first drive, (the one that didn't boot), did you repartition, and reformat before installing? If not, I'd try that before giving up on the hard drive - just to be safe...


Wabbit

[Fulmar]

I wasn't using Windows, I was using FreeNAS which is based off of FreeBSD.  The drive was formatted on the intial install.  After I got the system up and running on a different hard drive I attempted to install it as an additional drive and received error messages when attempting to format it through the FreeNAS GUI.  When installing it the first time around, the command line text told me nothing about format problems/install problems.