Can anyone tell me if there is some kind of virus taking out HARD DRIVES? I lost 2 within a week of each other. Both Maxtors and both around a year old. a 40 gig and a 60 gig. They worked great and then I did an update from Microsoft and the sucker wouldn't BOOT. I tried everything that I know. I SWEAR. It's was telling me that I had bad sectors. Hard Drives used to last for at least 4 years. Any solutions? The warranty has obviously ran out.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
P.S I went back to Seagate and Western for my new Drives.
I had a 160GB a while back that i screwed up while low level formatting it, turned it into a 130GB. tried everything for a week, partition magic, fdisk, everything.
Finally decided to use the Maxtor utility. It was fixed in about 30 seconds.
Ive got almost all maxtors. I think its just luck of the draw with all drives anymore, they make so many.
I would defiantly check your power supply out if you had 2 drives around the same time. I personally am not a big fan of Maxtor drives as they seem to run quite a bit hotter then WD drives and heat isn't the best thing for any electronic devices.
2 drives going out does sound like a Power problem. First check with something like Speedfan http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php or motherboard monitor. Then try checking it manually by using a multimeter if you can get your hands on one.
If you need new drives, Segate now carries 5 year warranties on all their drives.
Not! bought the supply from original manufacturer on one computer and a new one on the generic. They are just CRAPPY drives. Already replaced the BAD MAX drives with Seagate.
But Thanks Anyway
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Originally posted by bombledmonk 2 drives going out does sound like a Power problem. First check with something like Speedfan http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php or motherboard monitor. Then try checking it manually by using a multimeter if you can get your hands on one.
If you need new drives, Segate now carries 5 year warranties on all their drives.
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