I came home tonight to find my brand new Seagate 7200.10 320gig drive making these awful sounds. It sounded like someone was running a nail across a chalkboard. I instantly checked the event viewer and found tons of errors and warnings. So I powered down for a while and booted back up only to hear the drive trying to spin up but having trouble doing so because of the nail-like sound. BIOS won't detect the drive so of course windows won't either; tried on multiple PCs.
My question is: I have my life on this drive (documents/pictures/music) and I'm curious as to how RMAs are handled by Newegg when they receive a dead drive. Are they just tossed in a bin and disposed of or do they attempt some sort of recovery and sell them as open box?
In case you can't tell I'm rather paranoid that my documents will be recovered by someone snooping around on the drive. Maybe they'd get lucky and the drive would work for them. Any insight?
My question is: I have my life on this drive (documents/pictures/music) and I'm curious as to how RMAs are handled by Newegg when they receive a dead drive. Are they just tossed in a bin and disposed of or do they attempt some sort of recovery and sell them as open box?
In case you can't tell I'm rather paranoid that my documents will be recovered by someone snooping around on the drive. Maybe they'd get lucky and the drive would work for them. Any insight?