Maxtor HD corrupt

[quentinterintino]

I did a little bit of searching but couldn't find any direct answers..

Maxtor, xp, 2 gb partition...

During my weekly defragmenting, xp crashes. Ran chkdsk... some corrupt sectors. I've got AV software running real time, so I doubt it was a virus. This particular HD has liquid ball bearings, which is what drew me into buying a Maxtor in the first place. It's only 1.5 years old, so I'm wondering, what caused this and what can I do? I'm thinking of just setting up this drive to use exclusively as a swap file (what a waste).

Furthermore, should I trust this drive with any data (thank goodness I backed it up), or just chunk it ?

Thanks in advance...

 

[quentinterintino]

anyone ?

 

[Fern]

Have you d/l'd and run Powermax?. IIRC, thats their free diagnostic software. Maybe it will tell you something. Hope it's not the one year warranty only.

 

[Excelsior]

Mine was doing this, and it eventually died. It is a 120GB 8mb cache Maxtor. I just RMAed it.

 

[quentinterintino]

Man, that's a bummer... I'll run those diagnostics when I get home from work, hopefully it'll be good news. Mine was only the 1 year warranty (OEM) so I think I'm screwed - think I'll just chunk it and stick to Seagate from now on. Uless you guys can recommend a good ~80 Gb hard drive ? Thanks for the advice.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Now we see the awful truth behind the warranty-reduction to one year by Maxtor... :|

Sorry to hear about your loss. Hope you have anything important backed up.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: quentinterintino
I did a little bit of searching but couldn't find any direct answers..

Maxtor, xp, 2 gb partition...

During my weekly defragmenting, xp crashes. Ran chkdsk... some corrupt sectors. I've got AV software running real time, so I doubt it was a virus. This particular HD has liquid ball bearings, which is what drew me into buying a Maxtor in the first place. It's only 1.5 years old, so I'm wondering, what caused this and what can I do? I'm thinking of just setting up this drive to use exclusively as a swap file (what a waste).

Furthermore, should I trust this drive with any data (thank goodness I backed it up), or just chunk it ?

Thanks in advance...

Can you post the error you got in your Application Event Log? That will clearly tell us what the problem was.