Serves me right for getting a Western Digital drive. Its a little above a year old. I came back from a week long trip to Morocco today and found out that it has bad sectors and my user profile file is corrupted and crashes explorer.exe process whenever it loads.
Off to buy a new drive tomorrow, any suggestions? Above all I need stability, right now Im thinking of going Seagate Barracuda.
Disk trouble
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Dominus Atheos
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Re: Disk trouble
If you need stability you should get a business level drive. For Seagate that's the Constellation ES or Barracuda ES.2. On paper those last (or have a "Mean Time Between Fail") of 10 times longer.
Re: Disk trouble
Went out and bought a 1,5 TB Barracuda with 32mb cache. Hope it lasts longer than WD.
Re: Disk trouble
Ok, time for some more problems. I installed the new seagate and it runs fine with a new system.
When I tried to plug in the old drive however, even though win7 booted from the new disk, it would stop loading mid way. BIOS detects the drive OK (although it does so slowly and with a noticeable hiccup). When I rebooted win7 loaded ok but I couldnt see the old drive.
What can I do? I really need some of the stuff on the old drive.
When I tried to plug in the old drive however, even though win7 booted from the new disk, it would stop loading mid way. BIOS detects the drive OK (although it does so slowly and with a noticeable hiccup). When I rebooted win7 loaded ok but I couldnt see the old drive.
What can I do? I really need some of the stuff on the old drive.
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Executor32
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Re: Disk trouble
Buy an external drive case for like 20 bucks and just stick the old drive in it and plug it into a USB port after Windows is already loaded? That's the easiest solution I can think of.
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Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil,
but a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow
was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now, the fool
seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Aku...
-Aku, Master of Masters, Deliverer of Darkness, Shogun of Sorrow
Re: Disk trouble
Back your data up on a separate drive from now on?Tolya wrote:Ok, time for some more problems. I installed the new seagate and it runs fine with a new system.
When I tried to plug in the old drive however, even though win7 booted from the new disk, it would stop loading mid way. BIOS detects the drive OK (although it does so slowly and with a noticeable hiccup). When I rebooted win7 loaded ok but I couldnt see the old drive.
What can I do? I really need some of the stuff on the old drive.
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