Help Please HD Problem….Errors.

Magic_x_uk

Magic_x_uk

Magic_x_uk

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Hi all.

Need some ideas please.

My Main PC (which is in this sig) has a WD Raptor 74GB as main BOOT / OS HD and a Samsung Spinpoint 250GB (10 months old) HD for Music, Photos etc etc.

Now I leave my computer on most of the time and recently have noticed a few “errors”

Like the Shortcut Icon to my Samsung Harddrive on my desktop will get a Big Red Question Mark in the Icon.

If I click it sometimes I cannot access the harddrive through the Icon and sometimes doesn’t show up in “My Computer”

Cables etc are all fine.

These are some views from Event Viewer for the errors my hard drive seems to be doing.


Any ideas would be great, can always RMA it if needs be as less than a yr old.






PS: Dons, I know these should be at 800 x something size. But I dont know how to do that ? If you could let me know that would be great so i am not breaking any rules.
 
Ergh: So I put it on a floppy disk, insert into computer and reboot.

Did that and it gave some error like soemthing about dos. Not sure but does XP Pro have DOS Behind it somewhere. Or is there a secret to using DOS in xp ?

thank you
 
ok, managed to do it (stick a floppy in drive) my computer ---> format ---> Make boot disk etc.

okay, ran the samsung utilities and nothing, nothing error wise found at all.


So what do i do now then, if there own utilities say there is nothing wrong, I mean it is a intermittant fault, but data is data and i dont want to loose it, as this HD is still under warranty.
 
think im going to have fun RMA it anyhow,

bought it less than 10 months ago from OcUK and just looking through there web site, samsung drives have to be dealt with with a company called REXO.

I shall call them tomorrow but they need proof of purchase etc. I dont know if I stil have it, I remember it being about £65 or so.

Am I screwed then if i cannot find any proof of receipt. I know OcUK would perhaps have something on there system but........ ???
 
Well I RMA that HD about 2 weeks or so ago, now this new one they sent me seems buggered as well. Sometimes my PC wont even BOOT past windows loading screen so sending this samsung HD back now.

Its not even my OS HD, just a HD for photos, Videos etc.

Does my head in this. Why cant things just be simple.

Now I have to package the HD up, post it back, wait 2-3 days for them to return to me a new one. Grrrr always something.
 
well I presume so, reason why I think it is the HD is that it has worked for 9 - 10 months fine then started with this problem.

After the RMA I was getting the odd start up that wouldnt load my OS, just stopped at the loading XP screen.

Then when it did load my OS I would get a failure of the K drive (samsung HD) within 5 - 10 minutes.

If I unplugged the samsung sata cable and rebooted I was fine, Mobo and Sata drivers are fully up todate as far as I am aware.

Very odd. Dont really understand it. Always the chance I got sent a recon one ? I dont know, do they do that ?
 
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