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srikanth

Post subject: problem with seagate 500gb sata hard disk

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 11:48

Joined: May 23rd, 2010, 12:11
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Location: secunderabad

i have a 500 gb seagate sata hard disk, every time i move this hard disk one slot to another it seems to be developing bad sectors. now when checked i it with harddisk sentinal, it is showing that there is spin up problem and has 170 bad sectors and will work for only 6 more days. should i worry. how can i resolve this problem. please help. thanks

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chinopk

Post subject: Re: problem with seagate 500gb sata hard disk

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 12:18

Joined: March 20th, 2010, 4:34
Posts: 256
Location: Turkey

what is s.m.a.r.t status of the drive ?

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Alexii

Post subject: Re: problem with seagate 500gb sata hard disk

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 12:20

Joined: October 28th, 2009, 14:35
Posts: 775
Location: Toronto

dont trust the fancy programs that give u estimates on how long the drive will last. Backup ur data immediatly. Bad sectors can be marked by MHDD but spin retry is a bad atribute to have. U will probably end up sending the drive back for warranty return. But backup backup backup.

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