Coincidence? Samsung HD failure

[jfroche]

I just put an Enermax Liberty PSU into my PC (AMD Duron, ECS K7S5A MB,
1GB RAM) and next day started getting SMART error warnings from the
BIOS on boot up. Luckily everything is backed up but I'm wondering is
this just a coincidence? The drive is a Samsung SP1203N and is 3 years
old.

 

[Mike T.]

I just put an Enermax Liberty PSU into my PC (AMD Duron, ECS K7S5A MB,
1GB RAM) and next day started getting SMART error warnings from the
BIOS on boot up. Luckily everything is backed up but I'm wondering is
this just a coincidence? The drive is a Samsung SP1203N and is 3 years
old.

What prompted you to change the power supply? Certain mainboard problems
can mimic bad power supplies, and the fact that it's an ECS board makes it
very likely that you will have mainboard problems eventually, if you don't
already. Also, if you are receiving SMART error warnings, that error is
just as likely to be related to the mainboard as to the hard drive.

I'm not saying your hard drive is OK, but I'd try it on a different
mainboard before calling it bad. -Dave

 

[jfroche]

What prompted you to change the power supply? Certain mainboard problems
can mimic bad power supplies, and the fact that it's an ECS board makes it
very likely that you will have mainboard problems eventually, if you don't
already. Also, if you are receiving SMART error warnings, that error is
just as likely to be related to the mainboard as to the hard drive.

I'm not saying your hard drive is OK, but I'd try it on a different
mainboard before calling it bad. -Dave

The existing PSU was a cheap unit and had become very noisy. I took
the opportunity to install a quieter and more efficient unit and also
to give me some upgrade possibilities later on. Your comments about
the ECS resonate with me as I have never been entirely happy with this
board and have suspected it may be the cause of some start-up
difficulties and wi-fi problems I've had. I'll take your advice and
post back the results.

Thanks.

Jim

 

[Rod Speed]

I just put an Enermax Liberty PSU into my PC (AMD Duron, ECS K7S5A
MB, 1GB RAM) and next day started getting SMART error warnings from
the BIOS on boot up. Luckily everything is backed up but I'm wondering is
this just a coincidence? The drive is a Samsung SP1203N and is 3 years old.

Post the Everest SMART report, that provides more info on the SMART data.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181

Its obviously possible to have a flakey power supply or even just a flakey
power connector, so its certainly possible for the power supply to do that.
Try another power connector, the metal tunnels in the molex connector
can open up over time and not make good contact if the supply isnt new.

 

[jfroche]

What prompted you to change the power supply? Certain mainboard problems
can mimic bad power supplies, and the fact that it's an ECS board makes it
very likely that you will have mainboard problems eventually, if you don't
already. Also, if you are receiving SMART error warnings, that error is
just as likely to be related to the mainboard as to the hard drive.

I'm not saying your hard drive is OK, but I'd try it on a different
mainboard before calling it bad. -Dave

Yesterday, the drive was not recognized by the ECS so I tried in on a
EPOX EP-8KRAI Pro motherboard. The BIOS recognizes the drive and
reports "hard drive S.M.A.R.T. staus Bad" and prompts to continue.
When I do, but Windows won't boot up. When I boot from the CD drive to
command line, I can look at the drive and switch between partitions,
see much info about file sizes etc. So given that I'm still getting
the SMART error warnings on a good MB, I'm thinking that the drive
might now be screwed one way or the other. Any recommendations on data
recovery tools?

 

[Rod Speed]

Yesterday, the drive was not recognized by the ECS so I tried in on a
EPOX EP-8KRAI Pro motherboard. The BIOS recognizes the drive and
reports "hard drive S.M.A.R.T. staus Bad" and prompts to continue.
When I do, but Windows won't boot up. When I boot from the CD drive
to command line, I can look at the drive and switch between
partitions, see much info about file sizes etc. So given that I'm
still getting the SMART error warnings on a good MB, I'm thinking
that the drive might now be screwed one way or the other. Any
recommendations on data recovery tools?

I like Easy Recovery Pro. Pretty expensive tho if you have to pay for it.

 

[jfroche]

I like Easy Recovery Pro. Pretty expensive tho if you have to pay for it.

Wow - yes, that is expensive and, in my case, would not be worth it as
I have a relatively recent backup.

A question about SMART diagnostics occurs to me: where does the BIOS
get it's report. Is there a log report stored on the drive? I ran a
Samsung utility and it came up clean.

 

[Rod Speed]

Wow - yes, that is expensive and, in my case, would
not be worth it as I have a relatively recent backup.

There are much cheaper and free options around.

A question about SMART diagnostics occurs
to me: where does the BIOS get it's report.

It asks the drive.

Is there a log report stored on the drive?

Varys with the drive and whether its been enabled on the drive.

smartctl will show you that.

I ran a Samsung utility and it came up clean.

What about the Everest report ?

 

[jfroche]

There are much cheaper and free options around.


It asks the drive.


Varys with the drive and whether its been enabled on the drive.

smartctl will show you that.


What about the Everest report ?

Heres what Everest says:

[ SAMSUNG SP1203N (0752J1FW946815) ]

01 Raw Read Error Rate 51 100 100 5749
OK: Value is normal
03 Spin Up Time 0 66 1 5824
OK: Always passing
04 Start/Stop Count 0 97 97 3356
OK: Always passing
05 Reallocated Sector Count 10 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 51 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
08 Seek Time Performance 0 253 253 0
OK: Always passing
09 Power-On Time Count 0 98 98 1216488
OK: Always passing
0A Spin Retry Count 49 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
0C Power Cycle Count 0 98 98 2678
OK: Always passing
C2 Temperature 0 151 109 29
OK: Always passing
C3 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 100 100 212194457
OK: Always passing
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 1 1 5399
OK: Always passing
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 10 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 10 1 1 5399
Pre-Failure: Imminent loss of data is being predicted
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 51 100 100 42
OK: Value is normal
C8 Write Error Rate 51 100 100 0
OK: Value is normal
C9 <vendor-specific> 51 94 94 3996
OK: Value is normal

(Apologies if it isn't well formatted but I am limited in my tool
selection). It doesn't look fatal, does it?

 

[Rod Speed]

Rod Speed wrote

(e-mail address removed) wrote



There are much cheaper and free options around.


It asks the drive.


Varys with the drive and whether its been enabled on the drive.

smartctl will show you that.


What about the Everest report ?

Heres what Everest says:

[ SAMSUNG SP1203N (0752J1FW946815) ]

01 Raw Read Error Rate 51 100 100 5749
OK: Value is normal
03 Spin Up Time 0 66 1 5824
OK: Always passing
04 Start/Stop Count 0 97 97 3356
OK: Always passing
05 Reallocated Sector Count 10 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 51 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
08 Seek Time Performance 0 253 253 0
OK: Always passing
09 Power-On Time Count 0 98 98 1216488
OK: Always passing
0A Spin Retry Count 49 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
0C Power Cycle Count 0 98 98 2678
OK: Always passing
C2 Temperature 0 151 109 29
OK: Always passing
C3 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 100 100 212194457
OK: Always passing
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 1 1 5399
OK: Always passing
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 10 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 10 1 1 5399
Pre-Failure: Imminent loss of data is being predicted
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 51 100 100 42
OK: Value is normal
C8 Write Error Rate 51 100 100 0
OK: Value is normal
C9 <vendor-specific> 51 94 94 3996
OK: Value is normal

(Apologies if it isn't well formatted but I am limited in my tool selection).

No problem thats always been one problem with Everest, the report is a bit too wide.

It doesn't look fatal, does it?

It doesnt look good at all, actually. That C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable
Sector Count is very bad news and like it says, the drive is about to die.

I'd recover what data I could and make a warranty claim if it was my drive.

Doesnt look like its a problem outside the drive.

 

[jfroche]

Rod Speed wrote

(e-mail address removed) wrote
Rod Speed wrote
(e-mail address removed) wrote
Mike T. wrote
I just put an Enermax Liberty PSU into my PC (AMD Duron, ECS K7S5A
MB, 1GB RAM) and next day started getting SMART error warnings
from the BIOS on boot up. Luckily everything is backed up but I'm
wondering is this just a coincidence? The drive is a Samsung
SP1203N and is 3 years old.


What prompted you to change the power supply? Certain mainboard
problems can mimic bad power supplies, and the fact that it's an
ECS board makes it very likely that you will have mainboard
problems eventually, if you don't already. Also, if you are
receiving SMART error warnings, that error is just as likely to be
related to the mainboard as to the hard drive.

I'm not saying your hard drive is OK, but I'd try it on a different
mainboard before calling it bad. -Dave

Yesterday, the drive was not recognized by the ECS so I tried in on
a EPOX EP-8KRAI Pro motherboard. The BIOS recognizes the drive and
reports "hard drive S.M.A.R.T. staus Bad" and prompts to continue.
When I do, but Windows won't boot up. When I boot from the CD drive
to command line, I can look at the drive and switch between
partitions, see much info about file sizes etc. So given that I'm
still getting the SMART error warnings on a good MB, I'm thinking
that the drive might now be screwed one way or the other. Any
recommendations on data recovery tools?

I like Easy Recovery Pro. Pretty expensive tho if you have to pay for it.

Wow - yes, that is expensive and, in my case, would
not be worth it as I have a relatively recent backup.

There are much cheaper and free options around.

A question about SMART diagnostics occurs
to me: where does the BIOS get it's report.

It asks the drive.

Is there a log report stored on the drive?

Varys with the drive and whether its been enabled on the drive.

smartctl will show you that.

I ran a Samsung utility and it came up clean.

What about the Everest report ?

Heres what Everest says:

[ SAMSUNG SP1203N (0752J1FW946815) ]

01 Raw Read Error Rate 51 100 100 5749
OK: Value is normal
03 Spin Up Time 0 66 1 5824
OK: Always passing
04 Start/Stop Count 0 97 97 3356
OK: Always passing
05 Reallocated Sector Count 10 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 51 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
08 Seek Time Performance 0 253 253 0
OK: Always passing
09 Power-On Time Count 0 98 98 1216488
OK: Always passing
0A Spin Retry Count 49 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
0C Power Cycle Count 0 98 98 2678
OK: Always passing
C2 Temperature 0 151 109 29
OK: Always passing
C3 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 100 100 212194457
OK: Always passing
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 1 1 5399
OK: Always passing
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 10 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 10 1 1 5399
Pre-Failure: Imminent loss of data is being predicted
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 51 100 100 42
OK: Value is normal
C8 Write Error Rate 51 100 100 0
OK: Value is normal
C9 <vendor-specific> 51 94 94 3996
OK: Value is normal

(Apologies if it isn't well formatted but I am limited in my tool selection).

No problem thats always been one problem with Everest, the report is a bit too wide.

It doesn't look fatal, does it?

It doesnt look good at all, actually. That C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable
Sector Count is very bad news and like it says, the drive is about to die.

I'd recover what data I could and make a warranty claim if it was my drive.

Doesnt look like its a problem outside the drive.

Is there any way to know if this problem was related to the electronics
or to the mechanical elements? I got a good deal on a 250 GB WD drive
and have moved everything (fingers crossed) to it. The Samsung SP1203N
is now being reported by the BIOS as gibberish name with no partitions.
Time to give up on it, I fear

 

[Rod Speed]

Rod Speed wrote
(e-mail address removed) wrote
Rod Speed wrote
(e-mail address removed) wrote
Mike T. wrote
<[email protected]> wrote

I just put an Enermax Liberty PSU into my PC (AMD Duron, ECS
K7S5A MB, 1GB RAM) and next day started getting SMART error
warnings from the BIOS on boot up. Luckily everything is
backed up but I'm wondering is this just a coincidence? The
drive is a Samsung SP1203N and is 3 years old.


What prompted you to change the power supply? Certain
mainboard problems can mimic bad power supplies, and the fact
that it's an ECS board makes it very likely that you will have
mainboard problems eventually, if you don't already. Also, if
you are receiving SMART error warnings, that error is just as
likely to be related to the mainboard as to the hard drive.

I'm not saying your hard drive is OK, but I'd try it on a
different mainboard before calling it bad. -Dave

Yesterday, the drive was not recognized by the ECS so I tried
in on a EPOX EP-8KRAI Pro motherboard. The BIOS recognizes the
drive and reports "hard drive S.M.A.R.T. staus Bad" and prompts
to continue. When I do, but Windows won't boot up. When I boot
from the CD drive to command line, I can look at the drive and
switch between partitions, see much info about file sizes etc.
So given that I'm still getting the SMART error warnings on a
good MB, I'm thinking that the drive might now be screwed one
way or the other. Any recommendations on data recovery tools?

I like Easy Recovery Pro. Pretty expensive tho if you have to
pay for it.

Wow - yes, that is expensive and, in my case, would
not be worth it as I have a relatively recent backup.

There are much cheaper and free options around.

A question about SMART diagnostics occurs
to me: where does the BIOS get it's report.

It asks the drive.

Is there a log report stored on the drive?

Varys with the drive and whether its been enabled on the drive.

smartctl will show you that.

I ran a Samsung utility and it came up clean.

What about the Everest report ?

Heres what Everest says:

[ SAMSUNG SP1203N (0752J1FW946815) ]

01 Raw Read Error Rate 51 100 100
5749
OK: Value is normal
03 Spin Up Time 0 66 1
5824
OK: Always passing
04 Start/Stop Count 0 97 97
3356
OK: Always passing
05 Reallocated Sector Count 10 253 253
0
OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 51 253 253
0
OK: Value is normal
08 Seek Time Performance 0 253 253
0
OK: Always passing
09 Power-On Time Count 0 98 98
1216488
OK: Always passing
0A Spin Retry Count 49 253 253
0
OK: Value is normal
0C Power Cycle Count 0 98 98
2678
OK: Always passing
C2 Temperature 0 151 109
29
OK: Always passing
C3 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 100 100
212194457
OK: Always passing
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 1 1
5399
OK: Always passing
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 10 253 253
0
OK: Value is normal
C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 10 1 1
5399 Pre-Failure: Imminent loss of data is being predicted
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 51 100 100
42
OK: Value is normal
C8 Write Error Rate 51 100 100
0
OK: Value is normal
C9 <vendor-specific> 51 94 94
3996
OK: Value is normal

(Apologies if it isn't well formatted but I am limited in my tool
selection).

No problem thats always been one problem with Everest, the report is
a bit too wide.

It doesn't look fatal, does it?

It doesnt look good at all, actually. That C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable
Sector Count is very bad news and like it says, the drive is about
to die.

I'd recover what data I could and make a warranty claim if it was my
drive.

Doesnt look like its a problem outside the drive.

Is there any way to know if this problem was related
to the electronics or to the mechanical elements?

Only by swapping the logic card and seeing if the fault remains.

I got a good deal on a 250 GB WD drive and
have moved everything (fingers crossed) to it.

The Samsung SP1203N is now being reported
by the BIOS as gibberish name with no partitions.

You dont that with a mechanical failure, only with a logic card problem.

Time to give up on it, I fear

Yep, time to put a stake thru its heart and bury it at midnight with lots of garlic |-(

Or make a warranty claim, anyway.

 

[jfroche]

Rod Speed wrote
(e-mail address removed) wrote
Rod Speed wrote
(e-mail address removed) wrote
Mike T. wrote

I just put an Enermax Liberty PSU into my PC (AMD Duron, ECS
K7S5A MB, 1GB RAM) and next day started getting SMART error
warnings from the BIOS on boot up. Luckily everything is
backed up but I'm wondering is this just a coincidence? The
drive is a Samsung SP1203N and is 3 years old.


What prompted you to change the power supply? Certain
mainboard problems can mimic bad power supplies, and the fact
that it's an ECS board makes it very likely that you will have
mainboard problems eventually, if you don't already. Also, if
you are receiving SMART error warnings, that error is just as
likely to be related to the mainboard as to the hard drive.

I'm not saying your hard drive is OK, but I'd try it on a
different mainboard before calling it bad. -Dave

Yesterday, the drive was not recognized by the ECS so I tried
in on a EPOX EP-8KRAI Pro motherboard. The BIOS recognizes the
drive and reports "hard drive S.M.A.R.T. staus Bad" and prompts
to continue. When I do, but Windows won't boot up. When I boot
from the CD drive to command line, I can look at the drive and
switch between partitions, see much info about file sizes etc.
So given that I'm still getting the SMART error warnings on a
good MB, I'm thinking that the drive might now be screwed one
way or the other. Any recommendations on data recovery tools?

I like Easy Recovery Pro. Pretty expensive tho if you have to
pay for it.

Wow - yes, that is expensive and, in my case, would
not be worth it as I have a relatively recent backup.

There are much cheaper and free options around.

A question about SMART diagnostics occurs
to me: where does the BIOS get it's report.

It asks the drive.

Is there a log report stored on the drive?

Varys with the drive and whether its been enabled on the drive.

smartctl will show you that.

I ran a Samsung utility and it came up clean.

What about the Everest report ?

Heres what Everest says:

[ SAMSUNG SP1203N (0752J1FW946815) ]

01 Raw Read Error Rate 51 100 100
5749
OK: Value is normal
03 Spin Up Time 0 66 1
5824
OK: Always passing
04 Start/Stop Count 0 97 97
3356
OK: Always passing
05 Reallocated Sector Count 10 253 253
0
OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 51 253 253
0
OK: Value is normal
08 Seek Time Performance 0 253 253
0
OK: Always passing
09 Power-On Time Count 0 98 98
1216488
OK: Always passing
0A Spin Retry Count 49 253 253
0
OK: Value is normal
0C Power Cycle Count 0 98 98
2678
OK: Always passing
C2 Temperature 0 151 109
29
OK: Always passing
C3 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 100 100
212194457
OK: Always passing
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 1 1
5399
OK: Always passing
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 10 253 253
0
OK: Value is normal
C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 10 1 1
5399 Pre-Failure: Imminent loss of data is being predicted
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 51 100 100
42
OK: Value is normal
C8 Write Error Rate 51 100 100
0
OK: Value is normal
C9 <vendor-specific> 51 94 94
3996
OK: Value is normal

(Apologies if it isn't well formatted but I am limited in my tool
selection).

No problem thats always been one problem with Everest, the report is
a bit too wide.

It doesn't look fatal, does it?

It doesnt look good at all, actually. That C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable
Sector Count is very bad news and like it says, the drive is about
to die.

I'd recover what data I could and make a warranty claim if it was my
drive.

Doesnt look like its a problem outside the drive.

Is there any way to know if this problem was related
to the electronics or to the mechanical elements?

Only by swapping the logic card and seeing if the fault remains.

I got a good deal on a 250 GB WD drive and
have moved everything (fingers crossed) to it.

The Samsung SP1203N is now being reported
by the BIOS as gibberish name with no partitions.

You dont that with a mechanical failure, only with a logic card problem.

Time to give up on it, I fear

Yep, time to put a stake thru its heart and bury it at midnight with lots of garlic |-(

Or make a warranty claim, anyway.

The one good thing about this drive is its three year warranty so I
expect I will have no trouble getting a replacement under the warranty
program. I am very disappointed that it failed though as I have used
Samsung drives since I first bought a 450M drive from them way back
when. I went back to them after the Fujitsu fiasco a few years back
and, in fact, it was the Samsung that saved my data in that case. Oh
well ..... Thanks for your advice on this, Rod.

 

[Rod Speed]

Rod Speed wrote:
Rod Speed wrote
(e-mail address removed) wrote
Rod Speed wrote
(e-mail address removed) wrote
Mike T. wrote

I just put an Enermax Liberty PSU into my PC (AMD Duron, ECS
K7S5A MB, 1GB RAM) and next day started getting SMART error
warnings from the BIOS on boot up. Luckily everything is
backed up but I'm wondering is this just a coincidence? The
drive is a Samsung SP1203N and is 3 years old.


What prompted you to change the power supply? Certain
mainboard problems can mimic bad power supplies, and the fact
that it's an ECS board makes it very likely that you will
have mainboard problems eventually, if you don't already.
Also, if you are receiving SMART error warnings, that error
is just as likely to be related to the mainboard as to the
hard drive.

I'm not saying your hard drive is OK, but I'd try it on a
different mainboard before calling it bad. -Dave

Yesterday, the drive was not recognized by the ECS so I tried
in on a EPOX EP-8KRAI Pro motherboard. The BIOS recognizes
the drive and reports "hard drive S.M.A.R.T. staus Bad" and
prompts to continue. When I do, but Windows won't boot up.
When I boot from the CD drive to command line, I can look at
the drive and switch between partitions, see much info about
file sizes etc. So given that I'm still getting the SMART
error warnings on a good MB, I'm thinking that the drive
might now be screwed one way or the other. Any
recommendations on data recovery tools?

I like Easy Recovery Pro. Pretty expensive tho if you have to
pay for it.

Wow - yes, that is expensive and, in my case, would
not be worth it as I have a relatively recent backup.

There are much cheaper and free options around.

A question about SMART diagnostics occurs
to me: where does the BIOS get it's report.

It asks the drive.

Is there a log report stored on the drive?

Varys with the drive and whether its been enabled on the drive.

smartctl will show you that.

I ran a Samsung utility and it came up clean.

What about the Everest report ?

Heres what Everest says:

[ SAMSUNG SP1203N (0752J1FW946815) ]

01 Raw Read Error Rate 51 100 100
5749
OK: Value is normal
03 Spin Up Time 0 66 1
5824
OK: Always passing
04 Start/Stop Count 0 97 97
3356
OK: Always passing
05 Reallocated Sector Count 10 253 253
0
OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 51 253 253
0
OK: Value is normal
08 Seek Time Performance 0 253 253
0
OK: Always passing
09 Power-On Time Count 0 98 98
1216488
OK: Always passing
0A Spin Retry Count 49 253 253
0
OK: Value is normal
0C Power Cycle Count 0 98 98
2678
OK: Always passing
C2 Temperature 0 151 109
29
OK: Always passing
C3 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 100 100
212194457
OK: Always passing
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 1 1
5399
OK: Always passing
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 10 253 253
0
OK: Value is normal
C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 10 1 1
5399 Pre-Failure: Imminent loss of data is being predicted
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 51 100 100
42
OK: Value is normal
C8 Write Error Rate 51 100 100
0
OK: Value is normal
C9 <vendor-specific> 51 94 94
3996
OK: Value is normal

(Apologies if it isn't well formatted but I am limited in my tool
selection).

No problem thats always been one problem with Everest, the report
is a bit too wide.

It doesn't look fatal, does it?

It doesnt look good at all, actually. That C6 Off-Line
Uncorrectable Sector Count is very bad news and like it says, the
drive is about to die.

I'd recover what data I could and make a warranty claim if it was
my drive.

Doesnt look like its a problem outside the drive.

Is there any way to know if this problem was related
to the electronics or to the mechanical elements?

Only by swapping the logic card and seeing if the fault remains.

I got a good deal on a 250 GB WD drive and
have moved everything (fingers crossed) to it.

The Samsung SP1203N is now being reported
by the BIOS as gibberish name with no partitions.

You dont that with a mechanical failure, only with a logic card
problem.

Time to give up on it, I fear

Yep, time to put a stake thru its heart and bury it at midnight with
lots of garlic |-(

Or make a warranty claim, anyway.

The one good thing about this drive is its three year warranty so I
expect I will have no trouble getting a replacement under the warranty
program. I am very disappointed that it failed though as I have used
Samsung drives since I first bought a 450M drive from them way back
when. I went back to them after the Fujitsu fiasco a few years back
and, in fact, it was the Samsung that saved my data in that case. Oh well .....

I have seen one warranty claim on a samsung, but that was
with a system which had previously killed a non samsung drive.

Thanks for your advice on this, Rod.

No problem, thats what these technical groups are all about.