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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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| 504293 | 2006-12-05 00:10:00 | Last august I bought a new system with a samsung 120gb IDE udma/100 8mb 7200rpm drive. Just now its starting to give me errors. Had trouble booting this morning saying a vital file was corrupted (forget which one) when doing the diskcheck thing, I had 3 areas of "file record segemnt unreadable" 3 deletions of "index entry", and some bad clusters. As its out of warrenty by 3 months :( I will need to pay for repairs, do they continue to die, or will it be OK now that I have scanned it? Do drives progressivly fail, or just get a few problems, and limp along after they are fixed? Cheers |
netchicken (4843) | ||
| 504294 | 2006-12-05 00:36:00 | Hard drives tend to fail suddenly and catastrophically but often display a few minor errors a couple of weeks or sometimes months in advance. I would recommend using a disk imaging tool to take a raw disk image now. You can then change the disk and restore the image to the new disk. Don't take any risks - hard drives are extremely failure-prone. | TGoddard (7263) | ||
| 504295 | 2006-12-05 00:50:00 | Just a quick note, buy a replacement now and install. Then move your drive to slave. As long as it is in and used as only hard drive, windows will continue to WRITE to it, which when hard drives are dying, is the last thing you want to happen. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 504296 | 2006-12-05 01:21:00 | Another point. Seagate hard drives have a 5 year warranty. Buy one. | pctek (84) | ||
| 504297 | 2006-12-05 01:21:00 | Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation definitely won't work :D Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 504298 | 2006-12-05 02:32:00 | and the warrenty won't cover any data on the drive. You'll have to pay extra, and that ain't cheap at all. Buy a new drive (I like seagate), and copy data PRONTO. | DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 504299 | 2006-12-05 02:36:00 | Samsung have extended warrantees if you buy them separately too. I have used them in builds and not had one fail, so far. Have a chat with the distributor if your P C supplier is disinterested. |
PENTIUM (426) | ||
| 504300 | 2006-12-05 03:27:00 | Samsung have extended warrantees if you buy them separately too. Extneded warranties? That you have to pay for?!:yuck: |
pctek (84) | ||
| 504301 | 2006-12-05 03:41:00 | Mouth to mouth? lol. I've experience HDD dying. So I quickly get one HDD for standby. The longer you wait the more mess you're going to face. | PedalSlammer (8511) | ||
| 504302 | 2006-12-05 03:45:00 | 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 good | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
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