A slight problem with my Seagate...

[Valefox]

Ok guys, here's the deal. This past Friday, my Seagate 320gb drive started acting up. The Event Viewer showed that the drive had bad sectors, and it would no longer boot. This weekend I went out and bought a Raptor and put my OS on there. I am able to see all the files on my Seagate and can copy them and such.

My question is, should I return the hard drive for a replacement, or should I do something like simply format it and use it as a secondary drive? In other words, is there any risk of it failing again?

Thanks!

 

[devman]

bad sectors repeatedly in event viewer usually means the drive is dying, if its under warranty RMA it.

 

[sondo2121]

I've had drives do that to me in the past before and they did end up dying. Sometimes they got so bad I couldn't test them or even format them. I'd definitely RMA it.

 

[NoxTek]

Download HDTune and check the health tab, that will tell you how bad things are and how quickly it's remapping bad sectors.

One of the new 7200.11 500GB drives that Newegg shipped me using their completely sloppy shipping methods started remapping bad sectors almost the minute it was powered up. I got so frustrated dealing with Newegg's RMA department that I finally said fuck it and paid $20 to have Seagate overnight me a RMA replacement drive.