WD250 died?

Curious · 18 Mar 2006 at 18:06

Argh.. I just got my comp up and running 3 days ago, and ll ran just fine for a couple of days. Now I installed a second harddrive, and I did not throw around stuff but took my time and was carefull. I start up and I get an errormessage telling me windows is needing some component because a file is either corrupt or nonexistant... I go into the recovery mode, wich is DOS and I am not able to access my drive. I start up again, and now suddenly the drive is unreadable.. I think:"what the heck, lets reformat" And now it has taken an hour to format 7%!!!!

I guess I have not been carefull enough, or did a virus sneak in and corrupt everything?

Aah well, Guess I just have to wait and see. Now I at least vented a bit. Maybe I´ll be back in 10 hours time complaining more

Curious · 19 Mar 2006 at 00:23

Yeah, fearing it might be the drive. It is now at 20%. What might be the cause of this? In my little knowledge of hardisk I would expect some minor parts to maybe be scratched and then format would just discount those areas or the drive would just plain fail, not become super slow. Or maybe I am just being impatient not remembering how long it took the first time i formatted?

Curious · 19 Mar 2006 at 06:07

Hmm 25%. How long should I let it run? Might i not burn the drive if it runs continuasly hour upon hour as it is formatting formatting formatting?

Curious · 23 May 2006 at 22:21

By the way... they were a little late in sending me a new harddrive.... but when it arrived it was the 500GB version!!! So I ain't complaining... Great service!!!