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844723 2010-01-02 00:00:00 First of all, if you can claim warranty, do so.
If not, write 'o's to it with the drive tool (you may be doing it now, takes forever!), quite often this fixes them. There may be a damaged sector which will be overwritten. Worth a try. 		mzee (3324)
844724 2010-01-02 00:55:00 First of all, if you can claim warranty, do so.
If not, write 'o's to it with the drive tool (you may be doing it now, takes forever!), quite often this fixes them. There may be a damaged sector which will be overwritten. Worth a try.

It is still under warranty, no doubt it as it's only 2-month-old. I bought it from PB Tech, Penrose. When returning (RMA) how do they check whether it is faulty other than running the WD Diagnostic check? I know Seagate (Singapore) just replace it without questions ask. Don't know about WD.

As regards writing 'o' to it, well, haven't come to that stage yet, still in the process of full media scan. Also, you mentioned that this takes forever, have you done it before?

BTW, is there a way to make it faulty so that PB will replace it?:D 		bk T (215)
844725 2010-01-02 00:57:00 A Hammer?:D KarameaDave (15222)
844726 2010-01-02 01:07:00 A Hammer?:D

Good suggestion! but it will cause physical damages which they will surely reject my request!:D

As you mentioned earlier, write 'o' to it and half-way through, turn off the power and this will most likely make it unusable, right?:D 		bk T (215)
844727 2010-01-02 02:02:00 Bad sectors can and do happen at any time to any drive, even brand new ones.

Quite simply DONT try to Bull Sh1t the reason for a RMA - simply tell them exactly what was done to prove it is the drive.
it then started to behave very unstable - sometimes it just hang there for 2 -3 minutes with the little circle spinning. Nothing moves; sometimes the screen turns grey, after 2 - minutes, every thing returns to normal.

Re-installed (clean install) at least >5 times in the past week. -------- Just finished installing Win7 to an old 160GB Seagate HDD and it seems to be working just fine

On the original WD drive, you have problems,( describe them) also tell them you reinstalled the Whole OS several times from fresh, same problem. Changed drives and the problem went away - that basically proves theres something wrong with the drive.

I've had people try that to me , changed the story every 5 minutes as to whats actually happening - right away you suspect "OK a bit of BS here - what really happened". 		wainuitech (129)
844728 2010-01-02 03:01:00 Bad sectors can and do happen at any time to any drive, even brand new ones.

Quite simply DONT try to Bull Sh1t the reason for a RMA - simply tell them exactly what was done to prove it is the drive.

On the original WD drive, you have problems,( describe them) also tell them you reinstalled the Whole OS several times from fresh, same problem. Changed drives and the problem went away - that basically proves theres something wrong with the drive.

I've had people try that to me , changed the story every 5 minutes as to whats actually happening - right away you suspect "OK a bit of BS here - what really happened".

Good advice .:thumbs: 		bk T (215)
844729 2010-01-03 02:58:00 Hi bk-T
I like you were running Vista for a year or so no problems, maybe a hang now and then but very rarely.
2 days ago I did a clean install with w7 Home Premium.
Everything was installed up and running on the net etc. so installed Avast which downloaded and installed no problems however it had to reboot to instigate the software.
It closed okay but then wouldnt reboot no way no how, no screen so nothing I could do.
Eventually I took off the usb ports etc. everything not needed and it came back to life.
Next I updated all the drivers I could get hold of
I have now transfered from my backup Easy Transfer, still okay, and will now one at a timel replace all the periferals.
There has to be one of them causing the problem
What to do about my emails (no outlook express) is also a worry.
Try just leaving the key board and router Cheers Bob 		jarob (7088)
844730 2010-01-03 03:48:00 Outlook express has been replaced by windows live mail which you need to install or you could use Thunderbird gary67 (56)
844731 2010-01-03 04:05:00 Hi bk-T
I like you were running Vista for a year or so no problems, maybe a hang now and then but very rarely.
2 days ago I did a clean install with w7 Home Premium.
Everything was installed up and running on the net etc. so installed Avast which downloaded and installed no problems however it had to reboot to instigate the software.
It closed okay but then wouldnt reboot no way no how, no screen so nothing I could do.
Eventually I took off the usb ports etc. everything not needed and it came back to life.
Next I updated all the drivers I could get hold of
I have now transfered from my backup Easy Transfer, still okay, and will now one at a timel replace all the periferals.
There has to be one of them causing the problem
What to do about my emails (no outlook express) is also a worry.
Try just leaving the key board and router Cheers Bob

I'm quite certain that it's my WD Hdd was causing the problem. As I mentioned earlier, I have intalled W7 on another HDD (seagate) and have installed all the necessary application softwares - they are all running sweet-as.

Just to satisfy myself, I put in the WD Hdd again, reformatted it, and re-installed Win 7, installation completed without problem but this time I couldn't run most of the stuff. Could'nt even load windows explorer, simply, most of the stuff won't work. Looks like it's getting from bad to worst.

Will wait till Tuesday and take it back to PB for RMA. I did not suspect it's my HDD simply because it's a new (only 2 months old) and a reputable brand (supposedly). Anyway, maybe just my luck! 		bk T (215)
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