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[leegroves86]

Today I turned on my computer and right before loading XP it asked to detect the HDDs for consistency. Well I thought it was a wierd fluke and hit enter to cancel. In XP I clicked on all programs but it wouldn't pop up. Thats odd I thought.... then less than a minute later a Windows message popped up in the bottom right hand corner that said something along the lines of "Windows has detected corrupted files at C:XXXX/XXX/XXXX/start menu" (you get the idea)

I immediataly backed up data and restarted. I let it do the whole checking for concistency thing and it took a while because it changed some files around and deleted others or something (it was NOT a normal "your good to pass GO" kind of thing)

started WD diagnostics and it said the Raptor passed the S.M.A.R.T. test. ran the extended test where it then detected bad sectors. It offered to repair them so I clicked yes. It did so and said everything was fine.

Should I be worried? This Raptor was just purchased in Jan/Feb. Up until now its had no problems and is has only had 60 of 150 gigs used.

Does this warrant an RMA? Will WD even take it back? The real kicker is this is the second WD HDD to fail on me in a year. Good ole seagate is still up and running

P.S. I tried to play WoW and it says a file is gone or missing. This just gets worse....

 

[AntisociaL]

I have had 2 hard drives do that to me in the past couple of years and both were Maxtor IDE drives. 1 of them is still fine to this day but the other one slowly got worse so I sent it in for rma ,which is what I would do if I was you just for the peace of mind.