brand new 200gb hd just died on me, with a ton of data that I cant recover...
goddamn maxtor.... knew I shoulda got a Western digital :disgust:
goddamn maxtor.... knew I shoulda got a Western digital :disgust:
hard drive just went belly up
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Send it back as a package bomb. Not big enough to hurt anyone, but enough to take off some fingers or a hand. After a while Maxtor will be pissed off at all the people sending bombs to them. The employees will be pissed that they lost a few fingers or their hand, but then they can get worker's comp and live happily ever after.
The End.
The End.
yea but it wont recover my data...
i just dropped the replacement 200gb drive in and I am trying to recopy some data that I have stored away on my hd
i just dropped the replacement 200gb drive in and I am trying to recopy some data that I have stored away on my hd
what I lost that pissed me off the most was a clean install with all of my programs and everything of winxp. losing that ghost image is gonna take me hours to redo when I need to reinstall winxp
And Homeland Security should be at your door.... right.... about..... now...
I'd answer that knock at the door, unless you want to door to come down.
Tried the hard drive in the freezer trick? Also, were there any telltale signs of its death? Like a strange whining noise right after you press the power button? I ask this since my 80GB Maxtor drive has been making it ever since I bought it.
I've had 3 WD drives go bad on me and most of my comps have Maxtors now and I've had no problems at all with my Maxtor drives.
It was so hot, I could barely get it out of my computer. It made a grinding noise, and when I tried to get data off it, it took me 90 minutes to transfer about 5 gigs of mp3s.
That and the fact that windows kept telling me the drive had bad sectors when I would boot into windows.
It pays to be a Ferengi. I try to find good deals. Then, I always buy drives in pairs, one to Ghost the other. When I'm setting up a machine, I ghost after each critical installation.
A 200 GB drive would take awhile, but you can get around that by doing your clean install to a 10 or 20 GB partition on one drive, then moving it to the whole drive that ends up being your main drive, reformatting the partitioned drive and Ghosting your full setup. Ghosting takes about 2 GB/minute.
A 200 GB drive would take awhile, but you can get around that by doing your clean install to a 10 or 20 GB partition on one drive, then moving it to the whole drive that ends up being your main drive, reformatting the partitioned drive and Ghosting your full setup. Ghosting takes about 2 GB/minute.
2 gigs a minute? :Q on what drives? I only get about 400megs a minute....
and thats the way I had it set up. My boot/programs partition in one on my 80 gb hd, and my ghost partition on my 200gb drive. I ghosted the 80gig to the 200 gig, then lost it all when my goddamn hd died! :|
I think I read somewhere that Seagate had some sort of triple check hardcore QC. I've never had a problem w/ my Seagates. I have RMA'd WD and IBMs though.
When you installed XP, did you do a quick format? I always do a full format when reinstalling to make sure that there are no bad sectors.
Also have seagates, no problems here
Although I've never had problems with WD drives either, only problems came from IBMs.
I have WD drives. When I ran a 20 GB drive, it took a little under 10 minutes to Ghost. Now, I'm using 60 GB drives, and it takes a little under 30 minutes. Same thing with my friends' Maxtor drives.
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