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It's a WDC 250GB SATA2 16MB
About 8 months old, was using it as my main hdd. One day i tried to boot it up and it kept freezing on bootup for no reason. I just couldnt get it to work!! so i reinstalled on my other drive. XP installed fine on the other drive, but when i was trying to copy stuff over off the drive that was previously the system drive, it would keep pausing or saying it was having errors.
I rebooted after installing all my hardware and chkdsk spent over an hour fixing damaged files. so i thought ok, thats it fixed now. Tried installing a game on it, and it took about 20 mins to install a 2gb game off a dvd!! once i restarted after installing the game chkdsk spent another eternity going through errors and fixing things.
HD Tach says its got an average read performance of 55mb/sec dunno if that's any good or not.
Anyway does anyone think the drive is going faulty?? I was going to try deleting the partition and making a new one see if that helps.. failing that do i send it back to OCUK or Western Digital?
About 8 months old, was using it as my main hdd. One day i tried to boot it up and it kept freezing on bootup for no reason. I just couldnt get it to work!! so i reinstalled on my other drive. XP installed fine on the other drive, but when i was trying to copy stuff over off the drive that was previously the system drive, it would keep pausing or saying it was having errors.
I rebooted after installing all my hardware and chkdsk spent over an hour fixing damaged files. so i thought ok, thats it fixed now. Tried installing a game on it, and it took about 20 mins to install a 2gb game off a dvd!! once i restarted after installing the game chkdsk spent another eternity going through errors and fixing things.
HD Tach says its got an average read performance of 55mb/sec dunno if that's any good or not.
Anyway does anyone think the drive is going faulty?? I was going to try deleting the partition and making a new one see if that helps.. failing that do i send it back to OCUK or Western Digital?