samsung F3 read disc error?

[integerspin]

Not sure if this is a the right place to ask.
I bought a samsung F3 1TB hdd in september.
A few days ago the computer blue screened, with a
stop but no file description.
After that it won't boot, it gives a read disc error.
Checked it with seatools for dos, it said the disc is OK.
Smart hasn't been tripped.
I checked with a few other disc utilities and they say it's fine.
The MBR is OK, ntld is fine, I have tried windows repair, all
goes ok until the reboot, read disc error;-)

I still have the disc that I transfered the data from, to the
new drive, so I put that back in the computer, with the F3
disc in the computer and the computer is fine and the
drive can be accessed no problem.

Wonder if you had any suggestions, I don't want to be RMAing
the drive as I will have to find soemwhere to store the stuff on it.

[Bambooz]

Tried an error scan with HDTune yet?
http://www.hdtune.com/files/hdtune_255.exe

Just don't select the quick test. That one fails to detect any problems even on a known bad (5k+ bad sectors!) HDD

PS: very true sig.. not 100% grammatically correct but still
Didn't expect to find any German text on here lol

[Adouken]

This is the exactly the same thing that happened to me, I RMA'd it and they replaced it. ):

[integerspin]

Just don't select the quick test. That one fails to detect any problems even on a known bad (5k+ bad sectors!) HDD
PS: very true sig.. not 100% grammatically correct but still
Didn't expect to find any German text on here lol

I was hoping someone was going to say something like 'you stupid fool you
need to set something as something or other'.
Think I really knew RMA was the only way.
Now I think about it I had it blue screen a few months ago,
I had been messing with the quadro settings for solidworks and
when it BSODed I didn't see the error, I assumed it was the
display I reset the quadro settings and it hasn't happened
since, I suppose it was the hdd.

It's running HDDtune at the moment.

Amazing the way the hdd fullness has grown over the last
few months, now to find somewhere to store all the ****e.
Now to plan how I will play musical partitions to get everything
off the disc.

The sig is roughly, well as I remember it, what was printed on some
bands T shirts, I was given the T shirt at a gig in West Berlin.