THRESHIN
11-11-2006, 08:36 AM
so i've got two drives in my computer - 1 new 250gig SATA and an older 80gig IDE drive that i mostly use for media storage. backing up all the time too. both are western digital drives.
anyways, the 80 gig has been behaving strangely...the only way i can describe it is that it 'gets up and walks away' every now and then. it just seems to shut down and disappear from my lsit of drives in windows. i figure maybe its getting near the end of its life, but it never damages any data (unless its in transfer to the drive while it turns off) and a simple restart fixes it every time.
so what do you guys think? drive dying?
anyways, the 80 gig has been behaving strangely...the only way i can describe it is that it 'gets up and walks away' every now and then. it just seems to shut down and disappear from my lsit of drives in windows. i figure maybe its getting near the end of its life, but it never damages any data (unless its in transfer to the drive while it turns off) and a simple restart fixes it every time.
so what do you guys think? drive dying?