I keep experiencing delay write failures with this drive, though it only happens after transferring lots of data off/on it or for example unzipping/rarring a large file (say several GBs), I have a newer SATA2 version of the drive as well, but that one is completely fine.
The PC has 2GB RAM and I remember reading somewhere that it can cause this sort of problem, but the other drive seems fine, so I'm not entirely sure. I have 2 other Maxtors which are both IDE and they are both fine as well.
The strange thing is I don't seem to experience the problem in Win Vista, and only in XP, and I actually have to transfer stuff to/from there if I don't want to get the errors, where i have to reboot to stop the problems.
Could this be a problem with the drive itself, as I'm worried its about to fail, unfortunately its out of warranty with Maxtor so I can't send it back, or is it a problem with windows/other hardware?
Any ideas are much appreciated.
The PC has 2GB RAM and I remember reading somewhere that it can cause this sort of problem, but the other drive seems fine, so I'm not entirely sure. I have 2 other Maxtors which are both IDE and they are both fine as well.
The strange thing is I don't seem to experience the problem in Win Vista, and only in XP, and I actually have to transfer stuff to/from there if I don't want to get the errors, where i have to reboot to stop the problems.
Could this be a problem with the drive itself, as I'm worried its about to fail, unfortunately its out of warranty with Maxtor so I can't send it back, or is it a problem with windows/other hardware?
Any ideas are much appreciated.
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