so wat windows ur fen using until can start scan it?

last month i bought a seagate 160 sata wiv ncq at viewnet pc shop. everything work great until yesterday when i on my pc a SMART error message came out... i continue to boot into window..scandisk..no bad sector..everything normal... try to restart few times the message still came out... so i disable the SMART function..

is there anything wrong wiv my hdd??

could i take back the hdd to the shop & change to a new one cause in 1 year time can exchange 1 to 1 but my hdd work normal if i disable the SMART??

mayb related to ur mB ler sumhow.

you go to cmd, and type chkdsk, it will scan for you for bad sector.

i'm using seagate barracuda 80 Gb Sata h/d. Bought it 2 yrs ago n it is still working fine.

normal windows xp sp2. once an additional hdd is install in to a pc, windows will scan the secondary hdd if it was not properly shut down before.

correct me if i'm wrong

a lot of bad comments for Maxtor
but my maxtor still work fine after 4 years

very weird then coz windows alwiz didnt inform of the bad sector it scan as so far only win98 & ME will tell after scan alwiz.

maybe coz only a recent model dat is the bad ones?

now i dont noe which hardisk to buy lookin at wd hd, it's so cheap than others, making me worries.. maxtor is out of the question, seagate.. hmm, maybe i shud test the seagate ones..

I have 2 WD running for 2 years. No sign of errors.

hey,wat is NCQ and molex connector ... ?
wat HDD must i have .... 4 both of them ....

NCQ is found in sata HDD,
molex is the power head which connect to the HDD.
u might want to give samsung HDD a try.

only in certain sata HDD's you should add
also only in certain sata II hdd's too

what are the advantages of NCQ?

Try a Google search of NCQ. Amount of information on-line is immense. Also, sites like Tom's Hardware and Anandtech are first rate hardware sites you should never miss.

But NCQ is not utilized in Windows XP yet izzit..?


If let's say I bought a HDD that is using SATA II but my mobo only supports SATA I, will it be backward compatible..?

This post has been edited by hardyboyz888: Oct 23 2005, 12:42 AM

Poor me...my 200GB Maxtor 6L200P0 ATA suddenly not working this morning....my pc suddenly hang & freeze...when restart, can't detect IDE since i used it as my master drive...dont have any back-up to my data...

i only used it for three months....lucky for me, it's under warranty & this monday i will return it at c-zone lowyat to clain my warranty..but warranty will never give me data recovery... i lost all my pictures,videos,movies,saved games, works & projects....but luckily again, nothing were extreamly ot urgently important....but still a lost datas...

i never let my PC on for more than 24 hours..just a normal everyday use....i really dissapointed with maxtor quality control...

i hope government through their IT & multimedia department must made compulsory for all hard disk drive makers to have data recovery centre for customers which their hard disk fail & still under warranty to recover their datas for free...hard disk makers sould responsible for all data lost...if cant be recover, they must pay compensation for the customer...

but for sure my next buy is not MAXTOR a.k.a DATA KILLER....fairly, before this i have one 40GB maxtor working fine for 2 years before sold it ..that one was in very good condition when i sold it... I think Maxtor is not reliable for mass capacity storage such as more than 80GB....

So for those with maxtor > 80GB...back up your data now ~~!!....

I learned a lesson today... i'll get my back up drive to back up my datas...i have nothing now ....

This post has been edited by he-sham: Oct 23 2005, 05:58 PM

government?!?
dun think they gonna get invovled in this sort of matter.

i've had 4 seagate disks so far.
1 @ 4 years
1 @ 3 years
2 @ 6 months
thankfully...... all still ok.

This post has been edited by borneo: Oct 23 2005, 06:25 PM

Read the warranty policy on any hard drive. It does not cover the data on the drive itself. When you purchase the drive, you are agreeing to these terms.

It would be ridiculous to make them responsible for the data on the drive since the value of the data is not something that you can easily measure. Also it will lead to so many false claims.

just wondering is that all HDD you guys complaining are high capacity (60GB above) or low capacity 20 - 40 GB ???