guys im sorry, I forgot to mention that the drive is partitioned for dual boot, ~34gb is partitioned for xp, would that have something to do with the high value in reallocated sectors?
I'm probably just gonna replace it very soon, can you guys tell me what the most reliable hdds are, I know that they are all mechanical and will all eventually fail... Thinking about a western digital
Lol, believe it or not I've only had the machine 2.5 years... I use it as a media server so thats probably why the power on hours is so high... Hmm just thinking, this computer was a display model in the shop which I got it so it probably contributed to about 40 - 50 days worth of power on... If...
I bought one of these drives in November for storing movies and music, I recently ran HD Tune on it and it wont read past 1099gb, The random seek test fails... But when I run the Samsung Estools diagnostic, it doesn't find any problems at all :S. I really do not want to lose all my media, have I...