IVIYTH0S Posted October 14, 2009 Posted October 14, 2009 (edited) Anybody have this harddrive: I am now sending in my second one :angry2: , I love Western Digitals but am starting to think this is a bad series or something? I was wondering if anyone else has this same drive and if they had to RMA. I don't really care if the drive fails since I it's just for carrying around music and the shows/anime I'm watchin, documents, and installs. (which are all backed up on my big drives at home) It's just an inconvenience while I wait for a new drive to be sent out to me. Drive number 3 I will be convinced that this is a bad line and will probably move on to the next 500GB 2.5 out there (who ever else's is cheap as speed doesn't matter since it is in a 2.5 enclosure I carry with me) Edited October 14, 2009 by IVIYTH0S Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted October 14, 2009 Posted October 14, 2009 Maybe you're just a bit rough with it since it's an external? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted October 14, 2009 Posted October 14, 2009 (edited) Maybe you're just a bit rough with it since it's an external? my old 320gb and 250gb never gave out though, and I owned those alot longer than this. (though thinking about it, maybe those were more durable since they had single platters of 250 and 320, whereas this has two 250s??) Edited October 14, 2009 by IVIYTH0S Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted October 14, 2009 Posted October 14, 2009 CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP my drive started working again, I'm pretty sure the replacement is already on it's way. Should I try to tell Western Digital to cancel the order?? I'm not sure if this will keep working and I'll start testing this. Should I just send this drive back in the package that comes, even if it works?? would they charge me for the RMA if my drive works?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP my drive started working again, I'm pretty sure the replacement is already on it's way. Should I try to tell Western Digital to cancel the order?? I'm not sure if this will keep working and I'll start testing this. Should I just send this drive back in the package that comes, even if it works?? would they charge me for the RMA if my drive works?? Am I screwed?? here's what the HD Tune turned back, but the drive seems to be working fine. I'm going to try plugging it back in it's enclosure (since it's running off of E-Sata right now) and see if it works. I don't know what to do if it works without a hitch, will western digital charge me if they get my drive and works fine?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 (edited) I have 3 of the drives, all from passport essential enclosures and not a moments trouble out of them, even though one had a 1/4 can of Mt. Dew poured over it one day (drive was unplugged) Two of them run in my server as my movie drives Edited October 15, 2009 by cchalogamer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 (edited) I have 3 of the drives, all from passport essential enclosures and not a moments trouble out of them, even though one had a 1/4 can of Mt. Dew poured over it one day (drive was unplugged) Two of them run in my server as my movie drives That's good, i mean....this one kind of came back to life (which in my one time experience means the drive is invincible). The seagate momentus 320gb in my laptop died for a few days (right when I needed it most....to present a game I was making with my classmates to like 80 people) but then suddenly....it started working again. Since then my laptop's fallen a few times and I'm pretty rough with it and the drive never even skips a beat. Am I the harddrive whisperer, or should I send this Scorpio out for the new one that should be here in a day or two?? Why don't you have 3.5inchers?? I assume you run these Scorpio's for the low noise level?? Edited October 15, 2009 by IVIYTH0S Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectrascope Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 Most likely they will not charge you, Run a chkdsk /f on the drive hd tune is reporting bad sectors chkdsk /f will try and repair them after chkdsk completes run HD tune again if bad sectors show up again save your data and move on bad sectors = bad news. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 (edited) Most likely they will not charge you,Run a chkdsk /f on the drive hd tune is reporting bad sectors chkdsk /f will try and repair them after chkdsk completes run HD tune again if bad sectors show up again save your data and move on bad sectors = bad news. oh really?? My old 1TB had them (and a month or so later died ) so you may be on to something. Thanks for the tip!! I was trying to remember how to initial the verbose check disk in the console. It's been a while since I had to do it. I'm going to check all my drives now just to be certain. (I lost 700GB's of anime on that 1TB) Edited October 15, 2009 by IVIYTH0S Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kash Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 You have bad sectors. It's clearly damaged and needs to be replaced. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 You have bad sectors. It's clearly damaged and needs to be replaced. What if checkdisk can recover them though?? Is the repair short term temporary?? Here's how it's going so far, not so good right?? I'm going to assume it's simply going to never correct mr. $I30 and loop endlessly until I stop it?? or is this normal? (I've always ran checkdisk, to scan and fix errors but never watched it before through the console) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectrascope Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 (edited) ding ding ding you have just hit a damaged block, which is not just a bad sector but is far worse it means there is physical damage in that area of disk, In other words backup what you can and get it to rma. If there is anything super critical there you can use a program called spinrite spinrite will try move the data from the bad areas to the good ones repair what it can and partition off the bad sectors it can't into hidden in accessible partitions the drive will still appear in windows as it always has though. Edited October 15, 2009 by spectrascope Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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