Seagate going to pot?

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Captain Slow

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I noticed several errors in the event log about a bad sector on my Seagate 250gb 7200.10, got a BSOD in the middle of a game, as well. I could hear a distinct "click" noise from the HDD during boot-up, and it took a jolly long time to load windows, as the primary pagefile is on that one.

The drive isn't a year old yet, what should I do? RMA it?

I've tried to run a SMART report on it, but neither of the programs used (speedfan and hdd health) will work. Speedfan says it's enabled, but does not show it in the SMART tab.

During one of the reboots, it didn't detect, then on the next one it did and got assigned to F.
 
Sounds like what happened to my Raptor a short while back.

Download and run SeaTools from Seagate's website.

Run a Long Drive Self Test, or a DST.

If it fails, send it back! :)
 
Seatools (windows) wouldn't test my drive, it returned an error saying the .NET 2.0 installation was fudged. I reinstalled .NET, it still gives the error. I'm going to see if their disc wizard does anything of use.

Thanks for trying to help, though.:)

EDIT: ULi SATA driver (surprise! :rolleyes: ) was causing the problems with seatools, I had to uninstall them. The drive failed both DSTs. Appears I'll be do a backup to DVD and RMA it. The drive is rather important, as all of my media and such, are all on it.
 
sure - RMA it! i hope you're not seriously considering one failed drive as a consensus that seagate hard drives are no longer useful devices. that's just plain silly. :eek:
 
I don't jump to stupid conclusions, I'm a reasonable man. Seagate does make excellent drives.

What I decided to do is buy a new 320gb or 400gb to transfer everything to, then RMA the dieing 250gb. I can afford to do this, it's far easier and I get a new drive.
 
sounds like a solid plan, i am confident they will fix your drive.

you title was somewhat difficult to discern the intent - whether it was in reference to the drive (i.e. my seagate is poopy), or the brand as a whole.

not a jab at you - it seems common these days for people to swear off a computer MFR after they have owned one device that failed, out of billions off the production line.
 
iroc409 said:
sure - RMA it! i hope you're not seriously considering one failed drive as a consensus that seagate hard drives are no longer useful devices.
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No, use the fact that they perform horribly to come to that conclusion instead.
 
I put a 500gb Samsung in my rig for backup, so I'll be able to RMA the the Seagate. The Seagate maybe has less than a month now.
 
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