I Think My Harddrive Is Broke.

[Livy]

im moving everything of the hard drive the now, i tried running scandisk but i kept crashing at exactly the same point, ive had a look at my harddrive and its a western digital. on its its got the date 4 jul 01 so ive only had it 2 years at most, how long a warrantys for hard drives? would i be able to send it back?

[lynx]

Originally posted by Livy@2 July 2003 - 14:53
im moving everything of the hard drive the now, i tried running scandisk but i kept crashing at exactly the same point, ive had a look at my harddrive and its a western digital. on its its got the date 4 jul 01 so ive only had it 2 years at most, how long a warrantys for hard drives? would i be able to send it back?

It depends on the drive, some are 1 year, others are 3 years.

Go to their website and look under support/warrant services.

You will need the serial number to find out if it is still under warranty.

[lynx]

Originally posted by Twister@30 June 2003 - 23:37
my PC makes noises like the gear are skipping or somthing

i hope it brakes so my dad will buy a new one

i only on a 700mhz 20 gig 128mb ram 8mb video

Keep downloading until it crashes.

If you download it out of the bedroom window and it crashes on the concrete I'm sure your dad will buy you a new one.

[Livy]

mines a caviar, looks like its only one year. and it doesnt recoqnise my serial. im giving it a go with the tools they got there.

[Livy]

i also tried formatting it and it gets about 3/4 percent and comes up formating aborted or somehting like that.
scandisk also crashed about 3% when i did a surface scan.
i ran them both from winme boot disk.

[J'Pol]

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[burnyass]

i got a 27 gig HD and u guys know how small it is. im gona keep dling untill i use every KB left on my HD. eventually it will crash and my dads gona buy me a 250 GB. now i will have a total of 500 gigs cuz i got a 250 USB external HD that costed $360. i only used 80

[iamtheoneandonlyone]

Run scandisk. If that's not the problem, then I think you have to either switch it to master or slave. I've had someone had this problem once.

[2nd gen noob]

Originally posted by burnyass@2 July 2003 - 20:33
i got a 27 gig HD and u guys know how small it is. im gona keep dling untill i use every KB left on my HD. eventually it will crash and my dads gona buy me a 250 GB. now i will have a total of 500 gigs cuz i got a 250 USB external HD that costed $360. i only used 80

why will you need 500 gig total when you're only using 80 just now?

[Livy]

it seems to be ok now. (fingers crossed)
managed to format it i windows. ill try running scandisk on full surface scan see if everything is ok.