I'm actually not confident that the drive is physically going, but certainly something isn't right. Which is why I'm looking for tools that will repair the Filesystem along with something that will check the physical media. The first is just something that I think would be good (I'm betting that there are better tools out there than scandisk) and would use on a regular basis. The other... well, it could be handy, even if I don't want to have to use it.
I'll poke around today in what I can get from that SMART utility and go from there. I don't know if Seagate has that program, but I have heard of others who have gotten a drive sent before the old is returned (with a pending charge on the credit card to secure the drive just in case.) The drive is still under warranty so there is no issue there if I have to go the RMA route. Eric On Feb 3, 2008 9:25 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you assume your drive is bad, look into drive RMA, and satisfy the > diagnostic criteria of the manufacturer to return the drive as defective, > most manufacturers will offer you some capacity to receive an advance > replacement, so you can (hopefully) transfer data directly from your old > drive to the new one, before returning the old one. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
