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| Thread ID: 74777 | 2006-12-05 00:10:00 | Hard drive dying, needs mouth to mouth ... | netchicken (4843) | Press F1 |
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| 504303 | 2006-12-05 03:56:00 | lol mouth to mouth? I suggest you buy a new HDD before anything happens to your precious data. Or at least back them up. Last time my 40GB IDE HDD and 5GB IDE HDD gave me problems, I upgraded to 120GB SATA. Oh, and what happened to the 2 IDE HDDs? Steel Mitre 10 Hammer + 2X faulty HDDs =.....you know what...hehehe |
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| 504304 | 2006-12-05 04:13:00 | Backup now!! | stu161204 (123) | ||
| 504305 | 2006-12-05 04:36:00 | I can't :) Well i can manually to a slave drive, but ghost, or paragon refuse to back up because of bad sectors Is there any disk repair software that can be used to check it? I'll go down tomorrow and get a new one, but if it could be saved somehow. The only things I found on the net run off floppies and from DOS, neither of which i have... thanks for all the advice indeed the time has come to drive a stake through its heart |
netchicken (4843) | ||
| 504306 | 2006-12-05 05:20:00 | I guess it is pointless reminding you that the CGA covers you despite the expiry of the supplier's warranty? Maybe I should just go cry into my pillow over the utter hopelessness of it all. I wish people with this much money to waste would throw some my way! Cheers Billy 8-{) :groan: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 504307 | 2006-12-05 05:36:00 | Billy T. You got it right. No one wants to listen. |
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| 504308 | 2006-12-05 05:51:00 | Extneded warranties? That you have to pay for?!:yuck: Same deal as Seagate, warranty applies to drives bought through distributor channels not direct from factory. Samsung kept their 3 year warranty when Seagate was flip-flopping down from 3 to 1 year then back up to 5. |
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| 504309 | 2006-12-05 06:03:00 | You got a point Billy . I asked about that and the computer shop said they would have to send it off to samgsung to get it repaired, so I wouldn't have another one to use, unless I bought it . I have had so much trouble with the place where I got the computer that I really can't be bothered fighting them for an immediate replacement . I like to support small computer dealers, but these guys remind me of sharks . |
netchicken (4843) | ||
| 504310 | 2006-12-05 06:39:00 | You got a point Billy . I asked about that and the computer shop said they would have to send it off to samgsung to get it repaired, so I wouldn't have another one to use, unless I bought it . But that's the point YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT!! The failure is the seller's problem . They have to honour the warranty or comply with the CGA because they sold it, that means they replace it NOW . Any recovery from Samsung or whoever is up to them . Sheesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Billy 8-{) :groan: :groan: :groan: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 504311 | 2006-12-05 08:30:00 | As almost everyone has said get a replacement and BACKUP!! I also agree with what a lot of people have said about Seagate, get one, they are goodHaha, I goin to laugh at ya. Maybe not if you're saying made in Singapour. Not Thailand or China. I already experience some problem with Seagate made in China HDD, like my S.M.A.R.T. log shows the seek time is slower than my Singapour Maxtor HDD and Maxtor got more space occupied than the China one. And it is a year older too, but the temperature of Maxtor is a lot higher than Seagate. | PedalSlammer (8511) | ||
| 504312 | 2006-12-05 08:38:00 | Haha, I goin to laugh at ya. Maybe not if you're saying made in Singapour. Not Thailand or China. I already experience some problem with Seagate made in China HDD, like my S.M.A.R.T. log shows the seek time is slower than my Singapour Maxtor HDD and Maxtor got more space occupied than the China one. And it is a year older too, but the temperature of Maxtor is a lot higher than Seagate. Do you expect to buy different brand apples and expect them to look/taste the same? NO! This is excactly the same as different HDD brands, they are all going to be different, I trust Seagate because of the reliability (as do most people), not because of the performance (but if it was a lot lower then it would be different) I can accept a little loss of performance if it means I get better reliability who wouldn't? Though the new (well not new anymore :p) 7200.10s are pretty fast. Also the amount on a HDD does NOT effect the seek times |
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