[pchelpers] Re: Hard-drive hiccup

The logic may be suspect here. Have you considered running spinrite?

PcCowboy wrote:
> My wife has a WD 320 gig drive that she uses as a storage drive. It is 
> only a year old.
> For the past 2 weeks she has been finding her computer locked down.
> Yesterday when she rebooted, that drive was no longer showing in XP.
> It wasn't even showing up in the bios anymore.
> 
> I took it out and hooked it in my computer. My computer sees it.
> I ran the WD diagnostic for Dos and got the error code 0007.
> That is something to do with the SMART.
> 
> I then ran the WD Diag. for Windows. The drive appears with a green 
> arrow for pass
> under the SMART tab. But when I run a quick test I get the message that 
> " the
> quick test could not complete. Status code-07"

> What caused this strange problem? Should we trust this drive?
> How can I return it for a RMA without any errors codes to report?
> 
> Pc

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