Dying Hard Drive.. What to do?
Hi All,
Well I managed to get myself an a64 X2 4800+ last week for just under £200 and promptly put it in on Thursday. However, yesterday I put the computer into hybernation from my keyboard and got some error messages about one of my HDD being corrupt (I'm running XP SP2 with the latest updates installed etc just so you know). The disk was visible in My Computer but I got an error message saying the disk or directory was corrupt when I tried to open it. Thankfully it didn't have anything too important on it so I just reformatted.
I started to copy some data onto it and noticed it was running WAY too slow. I have 4 x 250Gb Seagate SATA drives in my PC and this one is running about 40% slower than the other drives which are the exact same model. I've switched it to a different SATA port and changed the cable. I'm also running a checkdisk on it now, but obviously I'm not going trust it with any important data. Seems to me it's on it's way out.
Problem is it's still working, so I don't know whether the shop I got it from will accept there's anything wrong with it. Has anyone got any suggestions?
Here's my system spec in case there's anything else you need to know.
ASUS A8N SLi Deluxe
AMD A64 X2 4800+
Nvidia 6600GT
4 X 250Gb Seagate Sata HDD
Terratec DMX 6Fire