Topic: 98se question.

[Towelie]

  WOW, WD is one of the few I have alot of faith in. Never lost a file on one yet.

 It would seem it found and locked out those bad sectors on the first pass. Hope you get it stable again, but stay prepared to move it to a new drive. Sounds like you already got it under control.

[Iceman]

Thank god.  I'm going to get a new Seagate 80GB and swap out the smaller 20GB.  THen I think I'm going to buy XP Pro, install that on the new one and send the old one back to WD. sounds like a plan.

[IKV Nemesis D7L]

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  WOW, WD is one of the few I have alot of faith in. Never lost a file on one yet.
 

I've had 3.  The first 2 failed the 3rd had "issues".  

Maxtor has been very good with me.  Never a failure.   I have 4 maxtors running now, 2 in a RAID setup.  

[E_Look]

Guys, I think when it comes to buying HDs, it's the luck of the draw, or reverse lottery.  Chances are with any name brand, you'll get a good drive that lasts quite some time, but every now and then, you get a lemon.  I think this is true also of stuff like RAM sticks and mobos and CPUs.  Most of the time, this stuff is okay.  

[TB613]

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Guys, I think when it comes to buying HDs, it's the luck of the draw, or reverse lottery.  Chances are with any name brand, you'll get a good drive that lasts quite some time, but every now and then, you get a lemon.  I think this is true also of stuff like RAM sticks and mobos and CPUs.  Most of the time, this stuff is okay.    

With anything in a computer that has moving parts, HDs in particular, how they have been handled during shipment is very important. Even though newer drives can take rather high transient G forces if they come from different directions and extremely close together the chances of later failure increase. I have had two HDs fail with one going after the warrantee had expired and the other (a whopping 2 GB drive) a week after I had bought the computer.  

[E_Look]

Yeah, I always worry whenever I recieve a shipment of an OEM packaged hardware item.  It always seems to come with 1) less protective looking (doesn't mean that it IS, however) packaging and 2) a much, much shorter warranty than the same thing in a retail package.

[Towelie]

  I've had zero issues with Seagate. Maxtor has been trouble free. I remember the two most unreliable, Fujitsu, and Conner. But that was a while back.

  IMHO, I trust companies that have been at it a while. I know WD and Seagate have had a long history, not to say others haven't. And there is also the treatment of the drives, enviroment, cooling, motion ect.  

[WillWeasel]

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  WOW, WD is one of the few I have alot of faith in. Never lost a file on one yet.

 It would seem it found and locked out those bad sectors on the first pass. Hope you get it stable again, but stay prepared to move it to a new drive. Sounds like you already got it under control.  

-goes cross eyed-

I won't even take a W.D. hard drive for free anymore. It's just not worth the time it takes to restore my system.

 

[Bonk]

Strange I've heard so many say this of WD now, yet I have sworn by them for years, never had a problem. I think they have been aquired by Maxtor recently? Perhaps the WD drives are not getting the attention they used to? I did get a bad sector on a Maxtor once, but have found Seagate and Quantum pretty reliable in the past.