:| that confusein, and my harddrive 1 which " is dead " is formattin :S so it cant be dead ?killer_uk said:Well if it is, thats strange, my raptor had something like 9000 hours or something, and had 52% health. My new seagate on the other hand had 142 hours and had 51% health?
This cant be good?
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ChoÞÞer said:
Download the western digital hard drive tester, that will tell you for sure if its on its way out or not.
http://support.wdc.com/download/?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=3
Backup whatever you can to DVD ASAP.
7zip the lot, and split the archive to fit on DVDs (4.3gb, IIRC).
Don't burn at the fastest possible speed - this will not only stress the harddisk when burning, but won't get you a good quality burn. For a backup, I'd suggest burning at 4-8x.
7zip the lot, and split the archive to fit on DVDs (4.3gb, IIRC).
Don't burn at the fastest possible speed - this will not only stress the harddisk when burning, but won't get you a good quality burn. For a backup, I'd suggest burning at 4-8x.
I wouldn't believe anything that program says - just gave it a whirl and one of my HDDs (brand new) was apparently at 44% health and had over 137years (more than 1million hours) of work life, and my oldest HDD in this rig (almost 7 years) was at 100% health and low work life...