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Seagate HD's/E-machine

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skywhr

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I have an E-machine *yes I know* and it has a 4gb Seagate hard drive in it, for the last couple of months the computer has been freezing up and/or coming up with weird errors. I tired reinstalling win98 and when it was scanning initially it came up with so many errors that it could not install windows. So I formatted the drive and started from scratch but it still froze up. I had a 1gb drive laying around so I loaded the restore disc on it and its been running fine. So it was obviously the HD, how do I find out what went wrong with the drive? Could it have been a virus, do virus's stay on the drive even after formatting? Did the drive just die?
Any help would be appreciated...
 
sky>
try running a full scan (scandisk) on it and have it check for bad blocks. this will be a good indication whether the drive has really gone bad or not. since it doesn't sound like it wants to boot, you can slave it to your 1G and scan it. norton disk doctor is a great app for checking the hdd too.

if it turns out to be bad, see if you still have a warranty for it through emachine (heh). if not, seagate normally has a 2- or 3-year warranty on all their drives. you can try and RMA it to seagate if it falls within their range.
 
I called Seagate today and they are replacing the drive which is great. The warranty expired 5-2-01 LOL!
 
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