Feb 21, 2012 #1 J jadams 2[H]4U Joined Mar 14, 2010 Messages 4,086 My Dell Perc 5i says a drive is no longer acessible. However Seagate tools says the drive is fine. The drive is pretty new and well within its warranty. Send it back?
My Dell Perc 5i says a drive is no longer acessible. However Seagate tools says the drive is fine. The drive is pretty new and well within its warranty. Send it back?
Feb 21, 2012 #2 B bloodypulp Gawd Joined May 17, 2010 Messages 903 try reinserting into a different drive slot and see if it detects.
Feb 21, 2012 #3 D drescherjm [H]F Junkie Joined Nov 19, 2008 Messages 14,933 However Seagate tools says the drive is fine. Click to expand... That does not mean the drive is not bad. At work we have had drives that 1/3 of the disk was unreadable pass the seatools test. We have had similar results with WDC data lifegaurd. Have a look at the SMART with a program like CrystalDiskInfo.
However Seagate tools says the drive is fine. Click to expand... That does not mean the drive is not bad. At work we have had drives that 1/3 of the disk was unreadable pass the seatools test. We have had similar results with WDC data lifegaurd. Have a look at the SMART with a program like CrystalDiskInfo.
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