[GoatIronMaidn]

I get this message in the event viewer. It is listed about every 4 hours since yesterday. Now, first off, how does it know this? Is the HD sending some sort of signal that it is about to die? Secondly, how seriously should I take this? Is there a utility that can give me a better diagnosis?

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[Quik]

daddy's gonna be mad

[GoatIronMaidn]

I am Daddy.

[Quik]

oh :<

Yeah, I have no idea what to tellya.. never have I had a problem close to that

[Vetritus03]

i would back it up, but i wouldn't doubt you get another 6 months to a year out of that drive. it could be a simple S.M.A.R.T. failure. no worries.

[Ben Goulbourn]

yes, backing it up should be a very very good idea, but then again it may not be a SMART failure, and if u have sensative data.. get a new Hard Drive

[gneato]

Buy a new hd and copy the partition across to the new one...

and send me the old one so I can use reiserfs on it for another 10 years

[SlashRaid]

I wouldn't count on it lasting much longer.

Some of you may have heard the large recall and problems a few short months back with Fujitsu HDs. My company had about 26 machines that tested bad, 14 drives that failed. Jim's displayed a message similar to Iron's postage, and failed about four minutes later. 2 other machines on the floor failed with in hours of displaying that message to their users.

I'd take it seriously....

Any hope the drive is under a warranty of any sort? What is the brand?

[Reflex Life]

hmm..... i've never seen that before, but without a doubt i'd back it up, and just buy a new hard drive, its only like 100 bucks for 80 gigs now, so its all good.

[GoatIronMaidn]

The brand is Maxtor. It's only a 30 gig drive. I'll have to check on the warranty. They have already replaced it once. I'm wondering if it being FAT32 has anything to do with it. I might switch it to NTFS if I remember how. It might just stabilize it.

[Trakker]

<cynicism>
I think it's those **** product marketers! they put bugs in your hard drive so every year you have to buy a new one or *bam* everythings gone!!!
</cynicism>



back it up periodically & keep usin it.

[GoatIronMaidn]

Better safe than sorry. Maxtor is sending a new one out. This will be the second replacement in about 18 months. The warranty is good until 2005 on this one. Huh, who would have thunk? I could have sworn it was only a one year warranty. I switched it from the raid controller to the primary IDE and the machine about went nuts telling me it is about to go bad. Now I get these SMART errors on boot and every few minutes in XP. I wonder why those messages never showed up when it was on the raid. If I didn't have a habit of checking my event viewer every few days, I might never have seen the original message. I had to switch it to get the PowerMax software to work right. That's the software that Maxtor gives you to check the drive and try to recertify it. If it fails, it gives a code. That code is the only way Maxtor will replace it. Well, the new drive should be here Thursday, I have my fingers crossed.

[gneato]

This, kids, is why I only use Western Digital.

8 most recent repairs I can remember:

2 comps w/ bad maxtor hd
1 comp w/ bad seagate hd
1 screwed over registry, maxtor drive ok
1 former AOL box (aol screwed up the dial-up networking), wd drive ok
2 upgrades, retired old wd drives and put new wd 40 gigs in commission
1 win98 box with a few bad clusters on the ~4 gig wd hd, 4 years old - ended up upgrading to another wd drive (20 gig)

[Lord Manimal]

I've never had a problem with maxtor myself. At least it sounds like their support is doing a good job by keeping you in new hard drives! ;-)

[Thorian]

what is the number you called I have a 20 gig maxtor that is about 2 years old that shot crapps if it is under warrenty i want a replacement