RE; you may still be okay,as for the freezes,on several ocassions,tech tool told me my drive was shot beyond repair, however, inializeing,rewriteing it to zeros and then reloading everything fresh,corrected the troubles,as for WD hardrive failures mine have consistantly just died(dead)no action .no warning just quit and stayed dead.trouble shooting a bad WD drive for me could not have been easier,but murphys laws= your milage may vary, as for NDD It has always caused me more trouble than worth,in fact it too often has caused the trouble it cannot fix to begin with,I much prefer disc warrior, if that doesnt do it,, then its reload it all time anyway. just my opinion,,best wishes
> Whoa. Now I feel kinda unfortunate that I have a WD ATA100 40 GB 7200 > drive...Is it that a sizable percentage are lemons, or are they (were they) > all just made wrong? I thought this drive worked perfectly, but the other > night I had a screen freeze. When I tried to restart, only the fan came on, > not even the light! No boot. After toying with it awhile, it finally booted > but then crashed even worse. After an hour of noodling with the power on > switch and keyboard, I got the Beige G3 to boot from an OS9 disc. I > reorganized my files and threw out some things, Then ran NDD(ouch, I can't > do nothin right!) and once I restarted, somehow thee prob was gone. A buddy > said it might be a prob with the power supply or something, but all these > negative testimonials make me wonder if its the HDD? I got it at CompUsa > (arggh, three newbie strikes) about 2 months ago for 99$...I just checked > the box and it doesn't say special edition so I guess its the sucker > addition....But I still dunno if the HDD caused the crashes or was just > disabled by some other hardware prob...I did have a crash or two recently > when I hotplugged in or out to my FW port. Once just firing up the printer > invited crashland....Any ideas, bright ones? > Thanks, > Rob > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
