Failing hard drive? I hope not

KingSpore · Post by **KingSpore** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:28 pm

I think drives last longer than 2 and a half years.

It sounds like a loose cable, but try cleaning it out and defragging it, if you didn't already. That makes them last longer.

icedicicle · Post by **icedicicle** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:05 pm

Firstly, don't buy western digital in the first place.

After bad experinces with a few WD drives I now buy either Samsung/ Seagate /Maxtor.

They tend to be very prone to screwing up.

Firstly you should try running scandisk in the cmd prompt to check for any bad sectors.

IF there are bad sectors, scandisk will try to fix them, but most likely it will just take note of them and tell windows to ignore those areas completely.

I would encourage you to trade your drive in for a completely new one though. Almost every single HDD comes with at least a three year warranty, and the standard is five. But seeing that its western digital and they sell on the cheap, i'm guessing yours was six months?

Hixer · Post by **Hixer** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:12 am

Hmmm, well, I've heard just the opposite from professionals, that WD HDDs are the best and Maxtor is the most fail-prone.

noobcrewz · Post by **noobcrewz** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:20 am

i have had one WD 200GB HD fail on me, made the clunk clunk noise, then my other 120GB drive started to have bad sectors and file started dissappearing.

IDE drives though, i heard the SATA ones are better quality now coming from WD. But im still wary.