This is suck! SuckSUckSuck!

[Turin39789]

Just got my brand new WD 120gb SE drive that I bought off of a guy who got it from dell. The drive was still sealed, I plug er up. I have seen doornails with more life in them. I am getting nothing from this drive. Luckily it seems to have some warranty on it. Gah. Just hope it is here in time for the lan next weekend.

 

[spanky]

give u $5 for it

 

[Turin39789]

nm, although when i ran the serial number the seller gave me when I bought the drive by WD it showed a 3 year warranty, It no longer does. Have to go put my machine back together and dig up that SN to see if the are the same. Gah I hate bad hard drives

 

[N8Magic]

Have you tried another power connector?

Maybe the power connector you used was bad?

 

[rh71]

Hmm.. WD never asks for proof more than the date on the label of that harddrive. If you're within 3 years, they should replace it, no questions asked. I did it after a drive died 2.75 years into its life and they replaced it no problem.

 

[bmacd]

*gets worried*

i bought my WD 120 after reading several posts here on AT and still have it sealed up on my desk in front of me. Maybe i should open it and verify it works.

-=bmacd=-

 

[Paulson]

If it came from dell and was classified as OEM, I doubt Western Digital would replace it... no wonder the guy wanted to get rid of it...

And you should be guarrenteed to have a warranty, because the 120gig WD models aren't even 6 months old...

 

[Turin39789]

Yes I tried various power and ide cables, I removed all of my ide devices and just had the WD plugged in. No go. Then I would plug in one of my Ibm drives and it would work fine.

The drive is oem from dell and there seems to be no WD warranty.

 

[RGN]

Contact Dell, they should hook you up.

 

[Turin39789]

yea, waiting for him to get my PM so we can start working it out. I figure he has to be the one to contact them because he has the reciept and is in their database