Seems like me maxtor portable harddrive is going boobs up.
After a quick browse of this area I noticed a lot of people using HD Tune so I downloaded the Pro Trial and ran serveral of the featues.
For a start, I can't READ benchmark as it just comes up "Read Error! Test Aborted" message. I did a quick error scan and it cam up with one red block, so I decided to do a full scan:
Not impressed. I only purchased this drive on the 8th October and its already like this. Granted it does get used a lot but that shouldn't make any difference.
The reason I even noticed is that i went to move a file and it created a cycle error
, bit of google means that = bad. So i've now got at least 2 files I can remove from the HDD 
No idea what else is borked yet! Luckily most of it is backed up somewhere, but this containts lots of backups too.
Any way I can fix this? Or is it a case of backup, format & return to the shop?
After a quick browse of this area I noticed a lot of people using HD Tune so I downloaded the Pro Trial and ran serveral of the featues.
For a start, I can't READ benchmark as it just comes up "Read Error! Test Aborted" message. I did a quick error scan and it cam up with one red block, so I decided to do a full scan:
Not impressed. I only purchased this drive on the 8th October and its already like this. Granted it does get used a lot but that shouldn't make any difference.
The reason I even noticed is that i went to move a file and it created a cycle error
, bit of google means that = bad. So i've now got at least 2 files I can remove from the HDD No idea what else is borked yet! Luckily most of it is backed up somewhere, but this containts lots of backups too.Any way I can fix this? Or is it a case of backup, format & return to the shop?
