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Impmon wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 04:07:04 GMT, "Ron Reaugh"
> <ron-reaugh@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>>Nonsense, cite a reference.
>
> My favorite message forum (about 100 regulars, most of them in
> Michigan), 8 of them had bad things to say about WD 120/160/200/250 GB
> drives. It may be a bad batch in MI but that seems rather high number
> for a small group.
>
> I do know their newer "quiet" drives (with the black top cover) are
> actually very noisy when they spin up. But once it gets going, you
> won't hear anything.
>
>>Other aren't reporting such.
>
> Maybe it's just me then or the support staff I got were in India and
> can't understand the problem at all. The HD I had problem with, it
> worked fine with the first 100GB but if I try to add more files, the
> files starts getting corrupted and even caused the partition to be
> lost. I have 2 other 200GB WD drives and they both work fine so it's
> not my PC. WD basically told me if their diagnostic software doesn't
> find problem, it's not a problem with the HD.
>
> I think thgeir diagnostic software doesn't throughly test the drive,
> only check for a few things. If I use scandisk, half of the disk
> shows in bad sector. WD won't accept that and insisted my drive is OK
> because their diagnostic software didn't find any problem.
>
> When I repartitioned to 2x 100GB, the first partition works fine but
> when I add files to the second partition, nothing survives in the
> second partition *and* corrupts the first partition! Since then I
> left the second one unpartitioned and unformatted.
Are all the drives on the same host adapter? This is a known problem with
the the Windows XP default ATAPI driver but may not be present with
third-party drivers.
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