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Is my Hard Drive bad?

Andrew1990

Andrew1990

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Well I installed installed a fresh copy of Windows XP on my extra 250gig Sata HDD I had laying around. I originally was using a 120GB IDE drive for windows.

Now they 250GB HDD is fine in windows and what not, but when playing games, specifically L4D, the game will sometimes pause for several seconds and have a sound loop but it will then go to where it should be as though it is skipping.

I was wondering if this is grounds for RMAing the HDD? It is a Maxtor Hard Drive with 2 years of warranty left so I am protected for a while yet.

I tried to defragment the drive as well as reinstall windows but nothing has changed. I validated my L4D files via steam but no go.
 
You can try running the Maxtor diagnostic to see if any errors are returned. It could also be a problem with the game if it doesn't happen in anything else.
 
Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
You can try running the Maxtor diagnostic to see if any errors are returned. It could also be a problem with the game if it doesn't happen in anything else.
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It does happen to a lesser extent in a few other games. Doesnt pause or anything like that though in encoding video or anything.

I will get the maxtor tools right now.
 
Ok, I wasnt sure what test to run so I ran two of them.


Short Drive Self Test = PASS
SMART Test = FAIL

Do I need to run the Long Drive Self Test, and also does the Smart test failing mean something is wrong?
 
SMART failing means the drive is on the way out. You're lucky, usually SMART doesn't work until the drive IS dead.
 
Maxtor . . . . . I think they either merged or morphed from a drive maker called Quantum.

Back in the day, I had a "card-slot" Quantum drive, and it didn't last very long. Then later, for my SCSI controller, I think I paid $230 for a Maxtor SCSI-2 drive, and it didn't last very long.

So I don't use Maxtor drives any more. See, all that could change if a company learns from its mistakes, and eventually you might hear about it.

But the most I've heard lately comes from this thread.
 
Well Seagate bought maxtor out a few years ago and from the reports I have heard, Maxtor RMAs get seagate drives.

I really dont care as I might just buy myself a nice 1TB drive really soon.
 
Maxtor drives built from around 2002-2005 have a very high failure rate. Yeah, Maxtor owned Quantum and now Seagate owns Maxtor. Seagate has supposedly dumped all of the old Maxtor designs and Maxtor assembly lines.
 
Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Maxtor drives built from around 2002-2005 have a very high failure rate. Yeah, Maxtor owned Quantum and now Seagate owns Maxtor. Seagate has supposedly dumped all of the old Maxtor designs and Maxtor assembly lines.
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And it looks like Seagate is having some serious issues with the 7200.11 lines...

For what it is worth, the 1 quantum (SCSI) drive that I got, still works fine! I also have 6 maxtor HDs (pre Seagate), and of those, only 1 failed.

Anyway, just wanted to say, that this program is pretty good:
http://hddguru.com/content/en/...re/2006.01.22-HDDScan/

I find it more reliable than Seatools for windows (which has some serious problems as well), and with that program (HDDScan), you can do lots of tests, and save the info to files. It is also freeware, works on SCSI, IDE/SATA/USB/flash devices, & RAID arrays as well. 🙂

 
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