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Is my HD saveable?

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limecat

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So here's my situation. About a year ago I bought a 250G Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 from a person on Craigslist. The drive has worked fine as a media storage device on my XP box until recently.

I've noticed that some of the media files stored on it have become corrupt. I'll click on an MP3 and an entirely different MP3 will play. It does this whether or not I click directly on the file, or launch it via iTunes. Video files would play the wrong file, or occasionally an MP3 instead of any video at all. Furthermore, sometimes when I'd restart my PC I'd get an error message on start-up regarding the harddrive. I'd let it do its error-correction thing but the drive was still sketchy.

I've since removed the HD and replaced it with a 300g drive. However, I'd still like to use the Maxtor since it is 250g (which would be the perfect size for my MP3s.) Might there be any software that will let me either fix this disk or block off the bad portions and keep using the good parts of it? Or am I outta luck on this?
 
Go to Maxtors Website, they have a disc utility for Maxtor drives...(it works on some non maxtors too)...it's you best bet...
 
Wha tyou describe is a failing drive. Pull your data off it onto another medium, then RMA the puppy. Do Not Use it anymore! It is failing and will continue to cause you grief and misery.

Bad hard drives are not worth playing with. Just get your data off them and consider yourself lucky for discovering their flaws before its too late.

If you need help cloning that hard drive onto something else, try the utility on the ultimate boot cd (google it). It'll take freaking forever, but it'll do a sector by sector copy, and bad blocks won't freeze it up like just about everything else I've personally tried.
 
That problems sounds alot more like a bad file system. Though usually the cause of file system problems is the hard drive errors but not always.


Run the full scan disk test and see if it comes up with anything.
 
Well....

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=761272

It's weird about the iTunes files though. If they are stored on your hard drive in your browser's cache files, I could see this, but by default the cache should be on your system drive. It seems implied that this is only a storage drive, and not a system drive, so that would be odd. That would be wacky if this was some kind of media-swapping virus. :p
 
Asgorath said:
Wha tyou describe is a failing drive. Pull your data off it onto another medium, then RMA the puppy. Do Not Use it anymore! It is failing and will continue to cause you grief and misery.

Bad hard drives are not worth playing with. Just get your data off them and consider yourself lucky for discovering their flaws before its too late.

If you need help cloning that hard drive onto something else, try the utility on the ultimate boot cd (google it). It'll take freaking forever, but it'll do a sector by sector copy, and bad blocks won't freeze it up like just about everything else I've personally tried.
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I've taken all the data off of it. I just wanted to know if the drive was salvageable.

Is it possible to RMA a drive that I bought, a year ago, from someone on Craigslist?
 
I think if you don't have an original purchase receipt, then they should go by the manufacture date. Wouldn't all of the 9 series still be under warranty? Best bet is to ask Maxtor themselves. :)
 
Kek said:
I think if you don't have an original purchase receipt, then they should go by the manufacture date. Wouldn't all of the 9 series still be under warranty? Best bet is to ask Maxtor themselves. :)
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I went to Maxtor's website and it looks like the warranty on this HD expired on 12/14/2004. Oh well, at least I know how to RMA a drive if it fails now. :)
 
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