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01-19-2003, 12:44 AM
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| Vista x64 User Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: California
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| Gah bad drives gahhh! My 80GB Western Dig has now for the 2nd and final time decided "wait.. wait.. that data.. oh I have a bad sector now.. all over the drive." The drive boots and all, but I can't remove or change the areas that are currupt. CHKDSK wants NOTHING to do with the bad sectors either. Not even from the XP recovery console. This is just a hassle cuz I have to copy all my data to other drives on my network (it just barely fits), replace the drive with a spare I just happened to have, and reinstall XP AGAIN after I just did it like a month ago. I also have to see if I can get the drive replaced under these new crazy 1-year or 10-minute or whatever warranties. Did they effectively end warranties for older drives (this one is about 18 months old).. Kinda be lame if I ended up with an 80GB paperweight.
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01-19-2003, 01:11 AM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Orange County, California
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| I know the feeling, had a replacement drive go bad just after 28 days of use. Best thing to do, bite the bullet... reinstall XP, buy ghost and get a network disk setup and image the drive after reinstall. It cost me a day of work but with the current rate of drive failures it will save me in the long run. As for the warranty, they have to honnor the warrenty it was under when you bought the drive. |
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01-19-2003, 02:36 PM
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| Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Montreal
Posts: 152
| My record here for a new HD to die on me is three DAYS. IBM GXP75 Deathstar. And I had wiped out my previous HD on the second day  Thankfully I still had a two-weeks old backup on CD-RW, so I could recover a lot of my stuff such as my 3 years of email archives... I went through no less than four Deathstars over 18 months. The third time I moved it as data/swap/temp storage drive, with nothing critical, and replaced the main HD with a WD Special Edition. The fourth time, I threw it on the shelves, and hooked a cheap Maxtor drive. I also know an ISP sysadmin who had both Deathstars part of a RAID die on him within the same week. Thank Gawd for backups... 'nuff with the Deathstar rant for now. 
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01-19-2003, 05:04 PM
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| IRCtastic  Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Massachusetts
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| I feel your pain, I woke up a few days ago to an error saying windows could not start due to the system folder being corrupt. Reinstalled windows and nothing terrible yet, i hope it isn't the drive dying on me It's a WD 80gb SE |
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01-19-2003, 09:58 PM
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| Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 81
| I have been a scsi drive dude for years...never once had a drive die on me. I have heavily used drives that still operate perfectly. The only reason I upgrade is when I run out of space on the drive because of Windows bloatware always getting 'fatter'. |
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01-19-2003, 10:16 PM
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| Never Ending  Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Vancouver, Washington (State)
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| I have been using the WD 80GB SE since they came out, never had a problem with them, I installed several on the other machines without a hitch!! -wayne
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