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08-24-2007, 10:16 PM
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| One dumb Techie Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: San Jose, California
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  |  Re: seagate 80gigs failing.. Quote:
To the thread starter: If an HDD is failing, it can be the life span of the HDD is dieing. Get a new one from Fry's because they usually have open boxed ones but it still works at it's best.
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08-25-2007, 12:02 AM
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| Re: seagate 80gigs failing.. It doesn't need to match up. All HDD are the same except for the transfer and power slots. IDE and Molex go together while SATA and it's power cable go together. Just remember, when you buy an HDD, make sure it's compatible with your motherboard. Some runs only IDE, some runs only SATA, and some runs both.
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08-25-2007, 06:40 AM
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| Re: seagate 80gigs failing.. another question related to this issue....like a couple a months ago...after this hd started to fail..i wipe it out with killdisk...and that 80gigs took me like 3-1/2 hours.[1pass]...is it ok,,or is because that the hd was not ok alreadey.. -i report other people that has much bigger hd's like 320..wiping th disk in 1 hours[1pass] is this true?.. -i also tried the seagate tools...and it reports .."FILE SYSTEM FAILED'... |
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08-25-2007, 10:31 AM
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| Re: seagate 80gigs failing.. I think formatting also depends on the reading speed of the Optical Drive. When I first built my computer and hooked up my Sony Optical Drive, took about 2 hours to reformat and about another hour just to do the setup. But with this Emprex Optical Drive a buddy gave me, took less then an hour to do the setup and a full reformat.
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08-25-2007, 12:24 PM
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| Re: seagate 80gigs failing.. guys..i'm not talking about reformat hard drive..i said to wipe out...using programs like kildisk or wipedrive.... reformat th pc takes for me like 40 minutes... ..and like i said in other forums other people reports wiping the hard drive ""before reformating it' takes 1 hour for 320 gig hard drive.. |
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08-25-2007, 12:41 PM
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| Wizard Techie Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sidlesham
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 | Re: seagate 80gigs failing.. i dont follow you, can you explain again?
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