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[pestul]

I am cry..

 

[Particle Physicist]

whats this program do ?

 

[demon]

WHAT THE FUCK AM I LOOKING AT

 

[pestul]

Detects imminent drive failures.. it's for large corporations mostly, but you can try the shareware from download.com.

 

[pestul]

Looks like I'll be getting a 40GB WD 8mb drive to replace it ($75cdn).

 

[Pimpwerx]

Hmm, I gotta dload that program. It coulda saved me when my IBM Deathstar 75GXP went down on me. The fastest drives around for a long time, but they had an impossible failure rate on them. Now my home PC just got crashed and I'm not sure why. I heard the Maxtor drive I have in there has reliability issues though, so I'm hoping that's not it. I haven't look at it yet. Thank God I got a laptop. PEACE.

 

[Diablos]

Oh please.

40gb Maxtor, 4+ years old - still working.
120gb Maxtor, nearly 2 yeard old - still working.
80gb Maxtor, 6 months old - still working.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Told you... 6Y06OLO is the one I (and many others) have had problems with.

Diablos - So because you haven't had a problem means that we're crazy right? :lol

My Maxtor's only use IMO, is for my PS2 since it fits the NA perfectly while Western Digitals don't.

Maxtor will give you a new one, so hopefully you can get your data off it.

Looks like I'll be getting a 40GB WD 8mb drive to replace it ($75cdn).

Not sure if they ship to Canada, but I just bought a 200GB Seagate Barracuda from New Egg for 109.00 (US)

 

[rs7k]

My dad has been using the same 12GB Maxtor drive since 1998, and he's never backed it up. I keep telling him to, but he's a procastinator, and I'm not going to do it for him. Maybe I should send him the program.

 

[Diablos]

Coco - Nah, just saying that with any hard drive comes the risk of it failing. Seagate, WD and Maxtor are all on the same playing field really. They all have a lot of defective drives out there.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Do your research. Maxtor beats everyone in failure rates.

 

[pestul]

I've had my suspicions about this actually.. my boot HD would take a while to spinup sometimes. I thought it was more a PSU issue.. but sure enough, it was actually a utility to see which XP security updates I have installed that found the issue (it said HD condition: Bad). So I ran this active smart utility to confirm it..

The 6Y060L0 is actually working wonderfully.. so I hope it stays alright. I don't really want a large drive for my OS since I want to stay speedy (I guess I could partition but I'm pretty lazy).

Are there any freeware image state backup utilities out there? I would like to make an image of my C:\ and easily install it again if possible to the new drive.. I read there was some issue with NTFS and bootdisk re-imaging, but of course I'm a complete newbie when it comes to this.

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

I've bought nothing but Maxtors since IBM drives went downhill... I haven't had a single problem either. Two of my Maxtor 40gb drives in this pc are about 2 years old at least.

 

[dark10x]

Damn, my drives are all OK...but they are running pretty hot. I gotta find a way to cool them down. Anyone have a good HDD cooling solution?

My single Seagate drive is running much cooler than the two Maxtor's, though...

Makes you wonder.

 

[DarienA]

Do your research. Maxtor beats everyone in failure rates.

That may be true but IIRC it's also been postulated in threads before that some people simply are Seagate people and others are Maxtor people, and buying across your brand is asking for trouble.

 

[pestul]

Hmm, Fiancee's Father apparently has Norton Ghost.. can that software re-image a drive without an OS installed.. to an NTFS partition even (like from my backup 60GB maxtor)?

 

[pestul]

Sweet.. used BootIt NG to create an image of my c:\ partition to be stored on the backup HDD. It saves the boot records and everything and is fully compatible with NTFS. I'm kinda on the poor side right now, so I think I'm going to run the defective drive into the ground... now that I have a little bit of security.