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Old Apr 25, 2005 | 10:15 pm
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monahos
 
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Originally Posted by birdstrike
What are the odds that this was a one-off problem, or should I think of trashing the drive?
A SMART alert verified by the manufacturer's diagnostic software is plenty to get your drive replaced under warranty, assuming it still is covered. The warranty was probably 1 or 3 years, perhaps 2 (retail drive) or 5 (recent Seagate).

I wouldn't use the drive, except perhaps as a scratch disk or similar.


PS. SMART alerts point to something worse than the only thing a low-level format would 'fix', bad sectors.
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