Da click of death...

**Seedler** · 03-16-2006, 02:58 AM

My Maxtor diamondmax 10 200GB 16mb HD just died

...

I think the HD is still in warranty, so I guess ii'll RMA the fucker.

My question is that because I overclocked my comp, would that void the HD warranty? Because when you OC your cpu, your RAM and PCI speeds are gets OCed because of the HTT increase. Would this affect the HD?

Good thing I backed up yesterday...Now running my comp on my ancient 40gig WD...

**clocker** · 03-16-2006, 03:02 AM

No, the HDD is unaffected by any OCing you may perform.

Congratulations on your prescient backup....none of my customers back up a damn thing.

**Darth Sushi** · 03-16-2006, 03:07 AM

Not likely, but maxtor had me run a diagnostic prog and give them code it spits out. You'll probably want to turn off OC when running this prog. It took about 10 days for my rma.

**Seedler** · 03-16-2006, 03:33 AM

Originally Posted by clocker

No, the HDD is unaffected by any OCing you may perform.

Congratulations on your prescient backup....none of my customers back up a damn thing.

ahh indeed...still have all my games and movies

Hope blu-ray is standarized soon tho, so all my BT downloads would be backed onto like 4 discs.

Originally Posted by Darth Sushi

Not likely, but maxtor had me run a diagnostic prog and give them code it spits out. You'll probably want to turn off OC when running this prog. It took about 10 days for my rma.

Thanks for the tip, I'll contact ppl tom morning

**Wolfmight** · 03-16-2006, 04:01 AM

Originally Posted by Seedler

ahh indeed...still have all my games and movies

Hope blu-ray is standarized soon tho, so all my BT downloads would be backed onto like 4 discs.

Originally Posted by Darth Sushi

Not likely, but maxtor had me run a diagnostic prog and give them code it spits out. You'll probably want to turn off OC when running this prog. It took about 10 days for my rma.

Thanks for the tip, I'll contact ppl tom morning

me too. It isn't easy to back up 500GB of data. (mostly video projects...and I constantly delete cache...only saving the important Uncompressed AVIs.)

I can't afford a 500GB hardrive right now.

**Duffman** · 03-16-2006, 04:33 AM

backing up, i try not to keep anything on a hard drive too long, burn my movies, keep the drive frag free, and do a ghost backup once in a blue moon.

**Chewie** · 03-16-2006, 11:43 AM

www.maxtor.com
They have a smart warranty system where you enter the drive's serial number and it tells you when the warranty will run out, then they present you with their drive utility download to run from a booting floppy that gives you the error code, which you enter on the form back at Maxtor's site.
If you're lucky though, the people you bought it from will exchange it for you and save you the hassle/wait involved in RMAing to Maxtor themselves.

**Buffalo** · 03-16-2006, 09:24 PM

Bad news about ya hard drive.
I had it happen on my notebook.

How do you rate the diamondmax now?
was going to buy a DiamondMax 300GB @ £76 from Ebuyer
I was always a bit unsure about Maxtor drives, until the new diamondmax came out.