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Blow me Western Digital

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RagingBITCH

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Fvcking useless Lifeguard software. Coworker told me his computer was running a lot slower than normal so took a look at it. Realized he had a Deathstar (GXP60) so we went out and bought a WD 120GB yesterday. WD's fabulous software is supposed to be able to set partition sizes, format in FAT32 or NTFS, and then do an exact copy of a partition from your old hard drive.

It does none of the above. Not only does it not format the drive, it doesn't set the partition size, and it certainly doesn't do an exact copy of a partition. (I even manually did set the partition sizes and formatted it using different software and trusted that it would do an exact copy) Neither of the 3 times it has "copied" has worked. Thanks for wasting 2 half days worth of time you useless POS hard drive company. :|

In the process now of downloading the Maxtor Maxblast to see if that will work, because I've used that flawlessly on every single other drive I've ever worked on (then again, I've bought only Maxtor exclusively b/c I've hated WD, and this definitely does not change my opinion) Just out of curiousity - are there any other (free) programs that will do a copy of an entire partition?
 
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Fvcking useless Lifeguard software. Coworker told me his computer was running a lot slower than normal so took a look at it. Realized he had a Deathstar (GXP60) so we went out and bought a WD 120GB yesterday. WD's fabulous software is supposed to be able to set partition sizes, format in FAT32 or NTFS, and then do an exact copy of a partition from your old hard drive.

It does none of the above. Not only does it not format the drive, it doesn't set the partition size, and it certainly doesn't do an exact copy of a partition. (I even manually did set the partition sizes and formatted it using different software and trusted that it would do an exact copy) Neither of the 3 times it has "copied" has worked. Thanks for wasting 2 half days worth of time you useless POS hard drive company. :|

In the process now of downloading the Maxtor Maxblast to see if that will work, because I've used that flawlessly on every single other drive I've ever worked on (then again, I've bought only Maxtor exclusively b/c I've hated WD, and this definitely does not change my opinion) Just out of curiousity - are there any other (free) programs that will do a copy of an entire partition?
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should've bought a maxtor.
Their Maxblast works great
 
I've never had good luck with Maxtor myself. 4 Seagate and 3 WD in my current box, no problems and it's nice and quiet.
 
Originally posted by: isekii
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Fvcking useless Lifeguard software. Coworker told me his computer was running a lot slower than normal so took a look at it. Realized he had a Deathstar (GXP60) so we went out and bought a WD 120GB yesterday. WD's fabulous software is supposed to be able to set partition sizes, format in FAT32 or NTFS, and then do an exact copy of a partition from your old hard drive.

It does none of the above. Not only does it not format the drive, it doesn't set the partition size, and it certainly doesn't do an exact copy of a partition. (I even manually did set the partition sizes and formatted it using different software and trusted that it would do an exact copy) Neither of the 3 times it has "copied" has worked. Thanks for wasting 2 half days worth of time you useless POS hard drive company. :|

In the process now of downloading the Maxtor Maxblast to see if that will work, because I've used that flawlessly on every single other drive I've ever worked on (then again, I've bought only Maxtor exclusively b/c I've hated WD, and this definitely does not change my opinion) Just out of curiousity - are there any other (free) programs that will do a copy of an entire partition?
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should've bought a maxtor.
Their Maxblast works great
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Oh hell I agree 115% - I HATE WD, because I've had nothing but sh!t luck with this stupid fvcking company. I had one die on me with less than a year's worth of use on it. I had an in store warranty so I took it back - the brand new WD out of the box lasted long enough to do a restore, then crapped out on me exactly 1 day out of the fvcking box. :| :| We only bought it because we needed one ASAP (our media guy has info that is mission critical on his hd, which we backed up to the RAID5 setup on our main server) and Fry's had the WD on sale.
 
Originally posted by: dartworth
I've never had good luck with Maxtor myself. 4 Seagate and 3 WD in my current box, no problems and it's nice and quiet.
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Yeah, Maxtors are loud.. but Seagates are slow 🙂😀😛
 
I hate maxtor. Every drive I've ever had has had problems. 2 dead, 1 that gives me a SMART: Imminent Hard Drive Failure!!! on boot (non critical system). My WD drives run great.

You could get a minimal live cd from gentoo and use the dd program to copy everything over bit by bit.
 
Never had a problem here either, then again, I havn't kept one for more than 6 months or so😀

3 WDs, 2 Seagates, 1 Maxtor, Seagate wins in my opinion (only an opinion though😀)

WTT
 
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