February 14th, 2004, 07:15 PM
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| the *Voice* in your Head
Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: NY
Posts: 4,520
| Quote: Originally posted by rrcn
I'm now formatting, but when it got to 83% it said: "Trying to recover allocation unit 874,889" then it started upping the numbers (started from 874,889) and its till doing that now.
| that's a pretty good sign the drive is unreliable. you could d/l the seatools from seagate and run a media diagnostic say but i wouldn't rely too heavily on that drive. |
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