On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:31 PM, John Carmonne <carmo...@aol.com> wrote: > I ran the verify and also the repair with Drive Genius 2. Now I'll run > the integrity Sustained Write test and see what that produces.
It is usally pointed out in situations such as this one that only YOU know how valuable your data is to you. If it were me and I had seen a drive failure indication I thought potentially credible then I wouldn't even look at the icon of a test program until I had backed up/saved any data I truly valued from that drive. I certainly wouldn't run any type of sustained test which might elicit a drive failure until I'd backed up all that I could. Once the data is "safe", then I'd happily true to beat the crap out of it with hopes of returning it under warranty. But I'd only do that after I saved as much of my data as could. But maybe that's just me. > I think the drive is about a year and a half old so I wonder about > Seatate giving me a new one also I don't have the receipt. The drive manufacturers don't care when you bought the drive. The serial number of your drive is used to determine when the warranty on it expires. The warranty period is determined based on when the drive was manufactured. If you go to the support section of the Seagate web site you'll find a web page there which will let you check the warranty on your drive. You'll be asked to enter the serial number of your drive (... and possibly the model number?). -irrational john -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
