Maxtor hard drive crashed AGAIN!
 

I lost count of how many times I've sent this thing back to Maxtor corp.- I think it's going on four times now :roll: This time though I think it was my fault but I'm not sure. The 'puter was on and I was having some network problems so I decided to slide the computer out to press the network cable in tighter and as I was sliding it out that's when i heard the very familiar knock. Fortunately this was the slave drive so I don't have to reinstall everything.

no more Maxtor products for me :!:

Maxtor used to be such a good brand. The best :!:
I guess their QC department is all screwed up :roll:
I've had very good luck with IBM DeskStars. Although, some people have had problems :!:
Also Fujitsu drives are really good.

-kwag

Provably still is a good brand, but Quallity Control doesn't have
control anymore after it goes out from their warehouse and since a HDD is such a sensitive hardware carefull handleing becomes an Issue. :)

Maybe their QC dept. needs a better "QC Prediction", let's send them QCmatic... :D

:mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Now my primary C: drive (Maxtor 80gb) crashed almost a week ago..I'm not sure if I'll be able to recover all my lost data :( I think I'll get a Seagate soon

Well I just ran the Powermax diagnostics utility on this drive and it checked out fine 8O How can the drive be bad one day and then a couple weeks later it's fine 8O :?:

In fact I ran the check on another Maxtor hd I had laying around that I thought was bad and it checked out fine too :!: This is weird

ren

Hi ren,

I think there's something intermittent in your machine :!:

-kwag

I dont think IBM DeskStars are as good as they used to be either especially now Hitachi are in charge of them, i had a 30Gig DeskStar that crashed on me a few months back losing tons of important data. :( :(

I guess a lot of it boils down to luck also.

I also agree Maxtor do seem to be slipping also.

I think so too! There are other weird problems too like my cdrw tray has trouble opening- I press the eject button and it just sits there for awhile. I threw another cdrw away because of this problem 8O

Also XP is randomly rebooting- like when the reset button is pushed.

Could this be a power supply related problem :?:

This is really driving me @#$% nuts!!! :evil:

Thnks,
ren

Hi Ren,

It could be power supply, or could be faulty hardware.
Do you see the dump file being written before it reboots :?:
Or it just reboots without any warning :?:
There's an option in XP to write a log file if the system crashes.
Check and see if it's turned off, and turn it on.

-kwag

Hi kwag,

I thought it was rebooting with no warning but I checked the system event log and there were three "save dumps" that said the system rebooted from a bugcheck and it gave the memory address and path to the saved dump (.dmp) file 8O Does this sound software related?

Thanks,
ren

Yes it does :!:
Are you running the latest service pack :?:

-kwag

No I'm not running the latest service pack- but I am now! :wink: