And so my hard drive died.
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Black neon bob
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Black neon bob said:
Yeh thank god. I hope the backup is going to work. Damn pcs are the most unreliable things on this planet i swear man , time for the mac lovers to begin the onslaught
Carrier Flux
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same HD's in mac as in PC man.kev said:
so was it a seagate that died? and was it a physical or operating system error?
Physical Error!
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I have to admit [reluctantly] that my last HD crash was a result of microsoft windows...hehehe. windows wrote to the master file tables incorrectly and corrupted the entire file system.
I just didn't want to admit that PC's might suck sometimes..hehehhe.
physical issues will more than likely be independant of the OS however. almost always.
I just didn't want to admit that PC's might suck sometimes..hehehhe.
physical issues will more than likely be independant of the OS however. almost always.
chadsxe said:
for christs sakes i know a hard disk is a hard disk LOL
im on a computing degree ffs 
I was suspecting that windows somehow had something to do with it earlier, but of course, is just a simple hardware f up (windows is a vulnerable op sys as it is far more dominant market wise than mac obv so it can no doubt be exploited easier-also, physical viruses exist). No idea about what the problem is technically chad, its on its way back to sea gate tomorrow
Heres a dilemma guys....
on 1st run, seagate tool picks up the faults and tells me to send the drive back.
Run: 12/05/2006 13:20:28
Primary IDE Channel : ST380011A
Model: ST380011A
Serial Number: 5JVE4BH9
Capacity: 80.02 GB
Test result: Self-test routine completed with a S.M.A.R.T. alert error!
The Drive Self-Test has determined that the drive may have one or more failing sectors. Please run SeaTools Desktop for additional information about this problem.
Any drive reporting a S.M.A.R.T. error should be considered likely to fail at any time. You should back up your data from any such drive as soon as possible. Contact your computer or hard drive vendor to obtain return information.
I then run seagate desktop tool, and it asks me if i want to fix the bad sectors! SO i say "ok!" I then run the original seagate tool again, and the test completes without errors:
Run: 13/05/2006 00:19:26
Primary IDE Channel : ST380011A
Model: ST380011A
Serial Number: 5JVE4BH9
Capacity: 80.02 GB
Test result: Self-test routine completed without error.
The qyestion is, do i send the drive back still??? Could the drive re-offend? Arghh!
on 1st run, seagate tool picks up the faults and tells me to send the drive back.
Run: 12/05/2006 13:20:28
Primary IDE Channel : ST380011A
Model: ST380011A
Serial Number: 5JVE4BH9
Capacity: 80.02 GB
Test result: Self-test routine completed with a S.M.A.R.T. alert error!
The Drive Self-Test has determined that the drive may have one or more failing sectors. Please run SeaTools Desktop for additional information about this problem.
Any drive reporting a S.M.A.R.T. error should be considered likely to fail at any time. You should back up your data from any such drive as soon as possible. Contact your computer or hard drive vendor to obtain return information.
I then run seagate desktop tool, and it asks me if i want to fix the bad sectors! SO i say "ok!" I then run the original seagate tool again, and the test completes without errors:
Run: 13/05/2006 00:19:26
Primary IDE Channel : ST380011A
Model: ST380011A
Serial Number: 5JVE4BH9
Capacity: 80.02 GB
Test result: Self-test routine completed without error.
The qyestion is, do i send the drive back still??? Could the drive re-offend? Arghh!
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kev said:
You can use it but it will be at a cost in the performance department. Bad sectors usually mean it is going to go bad soon (1-3 months in my experince). When you noticed it going bad what was wrong. I am guessing it was accessing data super slow, correct?
Nostalgiaplatz
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windows usually maps the disk in such a way that it forbids any writting to the blocks where the bad cluster is. So, don't worry, it will still work, but you'll have less space than usual, especialy if you've fat32 filesystem there...
Carrier Flux
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HD's often come with bad sectors. but if they popped up randomly I would recommend sending the piece back for warranty just to be safe. it's likely to fail again.
In fact, get a load of this:
The decision has been made lol- its going going GONE! sodding thing
The decision has been made lol- its going going GONE! sodding thing
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