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[AlphaSnake]

Well, last week my Maxtor 60GB HD crashed on me and everything on it was gone. Luckily, thanks to my l33t h@xxo41n9 sk1llz I managed to recover pretty much everything I needed from the HD and let the rest of it sink like the Titanic. Now, the last thing I did to the HD was install Need for Speed: Underground on it. I played the game just fine for about 2 hours. The next day, I noticed my PC running extra slow, I didn't pay attention to it. Later than night I wanted to play some more NFS again, because I absolutely looooooooooooove how hot it looks and sounds on my PC rather than my PS2 or Xbox.

I double click the icon...nothing. Do it again...nope. I make sure the Play CD (CD2) is in the bay...and nope. I then entered the F drive, uninstalled NFSU and then tried to install it again. Except the uninstall didn't fully finish and about 200MB remained. I tried to uninstall again...but it said I didn't have permission to access the HD. :\ So, all of a sudden...I check the properties of my HD and it tells me that the HD has not been formatted and it's prompting me to do so. At this point, I start going ape shit. I had *a lot* of really important crap on the HD. The properties read that the HD is empty and all.

So, since NFSU was the last thing I installed...could it at all be possible that a video was responsible for the crash?

Oh and btw: No. This wasn't a pirated copy of the game. I bought it for $20 at Best Buy; it was too damn cheap to pass up.

 

[Brannon]

All I'll say is...

Fallout.

 

[op_ivy]

All I'll say is...

Fallout.

didnt myth 2 do this as well? lol

 

[AlphaSnake]

So it is possible, eh. I really wanna' install the game again...but I'm too fucking scared to.

 

[shuri]

Probably just a coincidence. My 200gb hd crashed after inserting a blank cd in a cd-r that was on a totally different ide channel. The hd was just bound to die eventually

 

[ArcadeStickMonk]

Props for still playing NSFU. Can I count on you for "Woo woo wooo's" in the future?

Games can also break video cards too.

I guess I really didn't come in here to help...

 

[Mashing]

I'm suprised no one has said it yet...

Maxtor drives suck the cock.

Horrible drives

 

[AlphaSnake]

Props for still playing NSFU. Can I count on you for "Woo woo wooo's" in the future?

Games can also break video cards too.

I guess I really didn't come in here to help...

Haha. I love racing games and I especially love NFSU. I can't wait until NFSU.

Woo-woo!

 

[DaCocoBrova]

That's what you get for using Maxtor. Crap they make.

I lost all my music that I collected since the Internet opened. Gone.

 

[teepo]

didnt myth 2 do this as well? lol

it would delete everything from your hd if you uninstalled it.

 

[Brandon F]

I'll jump on the Maxtor sux bandwagon. Bought a 40 GB drive a couple years back, and after a few months I lost response from my vid card and several apps from having it as my system drive.

In fact, all of the symptoms mentioned in the first post is what I recall. Sluggish overall system performance(Right click menu faded in very slowly, windows took a long ass time to load content, etc...), 3D game applications didn't open or function.

I bought a Seagate drive soon after and have had zero issues.

 

[Ill Saint]

My Maxtor 120gb external died a few days after the 1 year warranty expired. I was fuming.

 

[AlphaSnake]

:\

*looks to avoid POS Maxtor*

 

[neptunes]

yea my 30gig maxtor died on me recently (In BIOS it flashes ARESC64K)

Can we return and get a new one? :lol

 

[myzhi]

Although people overlook it, HDs generate alot of heat which could lead to corruption, lost data, and even death of the drive. I use to get HD corruptions once in a well, but after getting and blowing same case fans at them, nothing in over 1+ years. I use WD Raptor and SE drives only.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Yeah, my aluminum externals sizzle. The Maxtor waaaay more than the WD tho. Only reason I'm even using a Maxtor (externally) is because it was the replacement drive to the one that failed. A month later, it started acting up, so I backed up and yank the somomomob!tch out my rig.

There it sat, unused for months. I had an extra enclosure, so I saif 'fuk it' and slapped it in there. Low and behold, it worked! Still works! But man does it get hot. I could cook eggs on it.

I just rip DVDs to it and leave it be.

It dies, oh well.