I don't belieeeeve it! i tried to capture to a drive caddy last week and after a speed test, found it was writing too slow..... so, I used another drive and carried on.
Tonight, I defragged and tried again, with the same result. So I went to the Maxtor site and checked the warranty.... you guessed it, the bugger ran out at midnight . . . yesterday!! Grrr.
might be worth checking .... they may accept a few days either way.
Hmmm, I'll give em an email and see, cheers Gary.
If you are worried get Active Smart a HDD monitoring program. I can warn of impending failure.
Luckily, there was not much on there, it's just the failure, 12 months + 24hrs to the day that annoys me.
I tried emailing Maxtor, but the formalities of the enquiry form wore me out.
when did maxtor change to a single year warranty ?
i was sure they were three years.
Morning Gary, the site lists warranty for drives over a certain capacity as 3 years, others at 12 months.
sorry , all mine up till now have been 3 years.
So have mine . . . till now. I've telephoned Maxtor in Ireland, and after dozen's of 'press 1 for ' I seem to be making progress. The chasing could end up costing more than the hard drive, but . . onward and upward?
how large a drive branny ?
as you say , it might be cheaper to just buy a new one , depending upon where you have to ship it back to.
I'm not sure from you rpost if the other disc is still in a caddy, and I don't know much about caddies, but have you checked that DMA is enabled when you use the offending disc? I've had some drives revert to slower transfers.
The HD is an 80gb manufactured in July 2003 and has been capturing all year with no problems. I need to run the utility from Maxtor to get an error report, then they will replace it (in theory).Thanks for the concern guys.