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Old November 24th, 2002, 03:36 PM     #11 (permalink)
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i heard something rattling around inside of it.

Definite RMA. There should not be anything rattling inside of a hard drive. I don't think the

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Do you think i should bother with the powermax disk check utility Maxtor has on their website first?

I don't think that would help anything since there's something rattling inside.

But, sometimes companies will make you run stuff like that before they give you an RMA. Haven't had them do that to me. But, it's your choice whether to run it or not.(If the hard drive will still work...)
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Old November 24th, 2002, 04:07 PM     #12 (permalink)
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I've had two of that of that exact model of disk fail within the last month! And they were both less than a year old! Sounds like these things are lemons..

Hope everything works out for you agathodaimon..
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