40GB Deskstar Shutdown problems? Bad HD?

[CapnKill]

I know that win98 and ME and even possibly 2k had a problem w/ the deskstar.. something about shuting down too quickly for it. This would cause the HD to break very quickly..

I'm runing windows XP, and occasionaly, even though I shutdown the computer just fine, on bootup it runs scandisk.. and I remember this being the symptom for the other OS..

Can anyone confirm taht this is a problem even in XP? Is there patch that slows down the shutdown process just like there was for the other operating systems?

 

[Paulson]

Have you been to windows update to look for the patch or searched for it on microsoft's website?

Also, I'm assuming your drive is the 75GXP model...

I believe the 45GB model had the worst failure rate out of them all, but that doesn't matter much.