I have a problem with the following drive. I did a low level format and after that i made a new partition on that drive on which i`ve wanted to install XP, but when i get to the license agreement screen i can`t proceed any further. I did some tests with mhdd and hd tune and these are the results. Is that hard dead or there is still any hope. If somebody can help me please let me know. Thanks in advance.These are mhdd scan results:

<3 ms 414294
<10 ms 212932
<50 ms 462
<150 ms 90
<500 ms 13
>500 ms 0

It probably needs a Selfscan.

If that fails, then it's dead

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And how do i do that? The thing is when i attach him on other pc windows sees him , partitions everything even reports that partitions status is healthy.

Take backup as soon as possible.



DF

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i already did that and after backup i formatted the drive which was working until i did that i dont know what happend at all but if i have to buy a new one it wont be maxtor for sure.

Hi,

it doesn't really matter what brand U buy, it is more important to cool the drive actively and directly.
pepe

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well i think that seagate and wd are better specially when i consider the fact that the merchandise that comes to our market is lower quality from the merchandise for western europe.

Not entirely true, some drives have a much better MTTF (mean time to failure) than other drives, it is due to the level of quality that the manufacturers put into each drive. There are drives from each major company that have a better MTTF than other drives. Namely the Western Digital and Maxtor 'Enterprise' line of drives.

People will also talk about certain manufacturers being worse than others, well we all know that there have been some companies that put out really, really crappy drives in the past (deathstar). My own (purely anecdotal) evidence shows me that in the past 5 years I have seen 2630 drives. The most I have seen were western digital followed closely by Maxtor with Hitachi third and the least amount was Seagate. One must also count into this that if you go back 7 years, you will see that the contractual bidding wars by the hard drive manufacturers for companies like Dell, Gateway and HP were almost exclusively won by Western Digital, forcing the failure rate and the exposure of data recovery companies to Western Digital drives up exponentially.

People are entitled to state that they have a favorite manufacturer, personally I like the Seagate Barracuda line of drives just for the fact that when I am sitting in my house and working on something other than my noisy data recovery machines, I like to have a really, really quiet computer. I have found that my Seagate are generally a quieter drive and run a little cooler naturally. I do have a mismatch of all kinds of drives in my servers, heck the 10gig system drive on my ftp server (5tb) is a quantum.

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Hi

I dont know from which country you are, but here in India Seagate is the market leader, with nearly 65-70% of its share and are good hard disk. I agree with PEPE sir that disk need cooling to perform better. In Summer when when Temp is nearly 38-40 degree Seagate temperature goes up to 53 while 55 is highest for it and Samsung temperature remains nearly 12-15 cooler comparative to Seagate without putting any cooling device or in A/C environment.

This definitely effects the MTTF of the Hard disk. Normally I use Hard disk cooler on both my and customer hard disk if i have to do recovery that takes a long time. And I thinks it really helps.

Keep Smiling, It Improves your vace value

DF

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This fits in almost with my statistics; worst Maxtor, followed closely by WD, then older Hitachis.

Seagate was my favourite until a couple of months ago, when I started to see plenty of their new drives come in. Commonest problem seized bearings. The worst Seagate drives are those manufactured in China.

Best drive now, in my opinion, is the Samsung 500GB, followed by Hitachi 400GB and larger - but discounting the 750GB and larger drives as they haven't been around long enough to determine reliability.

For DR ,
I Use a 120m AC Fan Far Away From HDD .Cools it Superbly

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