From: "Gary Britt" 

Probably quite good advice.  I guess I'll give staples a call this week.

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Gary
Bill Clinton gave a 2 Billion NO BID contract to Halliburton in Kosovo. Ooops.


"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> Get an RMA for the drive and clone it now.
>
> --
> Glenn M.
>
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:4123ca60{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Whose replacing the drive for you?  Maxtor or selling vendor?  What was
> the
> > warranty?  I've got two Maxtor Drives I bought at Staples.  A 120 and a
> 160.
> > The 160 is fine, but for the past 5 months there is a daily error
message
> in
> > my win2k application/system event logs that says the 120 meg drive is
> > predicting it will fail replace it immediately.  The
"bad" drive does
have
> a
> > large number of bad sectors that I had to use NDD to identify, but once
I
> > did this it hasn't given me trouble as a backup storage drive.
> >
> > I'm wondering if I should seek a warranty replacement or just continue
to
> > ride the thing for a while?
> >
> > --
> > Gary
> > Bill Clinton gave a 2 Billion NO BID contract to Halliburton in Kosovo.
> > Ooops.
> >
> >
> > "Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
> > news:MPG.1b8c9950bf13c3c4989e70{at}news.barkto.com...
> > > In article , georger{at}nls.net says...
> > > > > I have a drive that's doing the click/seek thing,
but it hasn't
> failed
> > > > > yet.
> > > >
> > > > 75AA model ?
> > >
> > > Nope. Maxtor DiamondPlus 80gig.
> >
> >
>
>

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