Bad hard drive?  | | 
October 29th, 2009, 11:25 AM
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Seagate 750g
So my computer started acting up a couple days ago. Doing such things as blue screening during use or on boot. I swear I heard the click of death a couple times. I had to do a repair with the Vista disk then things started running better.
I ran some software and found about 100+ bad sectors. The drive is about 7 months old and under warranty. So I download the seagate tools and did both the long and short test. Both of these failed almost right away.
So I headed out and bought a new drive, works great. Since old drive is still under warranty I decided to RMA it. So I downloaded a drive wiper and wiped the drive. Just for fun I tested it again with the seagate tools. Now it passes all the tests.
I am assuming that this is just because the drive does not know there are bad sectors now since they were over written? The drive is still bad right? | 
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October 29th, 2009, 11:27 AM
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Correct!
Curious why you didnt RMA and wait for the new drive? Seems silly to buy a new drive since the other was under warranty | 
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October 29th, 2009, 11:39 AM
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I have this thing where I can not stop thinking about my computer until it is running right. If I would have waited I would have laid in bed all night thinking about what if's and being disturbed that my baby was not running.
Plus I had this brand new copy of windows 7 
You are right though, my wife said the same thing. | |
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October 29th, 2009, 06:43 PM
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Actually, if the drive test passes the mfr's most strenuous test, then there is nothing wrong with the drive. Probably some miswritten sectors, etc. caused the earlier problem. There are some Freeware drive testers too, if you don't trust Seagate's tools. Try to find something that tests your drive's SMART functions too if the Seagate tools didn't do it.
I think what we have here is a case of jumping to confusions... ;-) Now you have a backup drive and don't have to pay shipping. Be sure to cancel your RMA request. A wipe (zero fill or often incorrectly called a LLF) will often cure minor file structure problems.
.bh.
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October 30th, 2009, 11:07 AM
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Ok update. I am RMAing the drive. It passes the tests after it is wiped and totally clean. Then if I move even the smallest file on it does not pass any of the seagate tests. | |
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October 30th, 2009, 11:10 AM
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Just let the drive go, its bad  | |
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