[pchelpers] Should I trust it.

I have a SATA Maxtor 120gig drive

You know when you place a cd in a drive or a removable drive in the USB 
slot a window will pop up asking what you
want to do.

Well I got up yesterday and found that window on my screen. It was 
asking about my SataMax drive.
It was acting like the drive was a removable drive and I had just 
plugged it in.
I clicked cancel and started working on my email.

Soon there was a "Click" from inside of the computer and the computer 
made that "ding-dong" sound
when you pull out a removable drive. Then there was a "Click" again and 
the "ding-dong" sound again.

I rebooted and got that blue screening saying that my SataMax drive 
needed checking. After running it repaired
a lot of files and then started XP.

I moved all my videos off of that drive and havn't received that 
"ding-dong" again. Evey thing seems to be running fine.
But every time I reboot it re-checks the SataMax drive again.

I tried the WD Window Diagnostic and it shows the SMART status as 
passing, but the program locks up when
I try to run tests.

The Seagate tool also passes this drive.

The Maxtor PowerMax 4.21 program can't see a SATA drive with an embedded 
controller on the motherboard.
And the PowerMax 4.22 program locks up when detecting the drives.

Anyone knows how I can get an error code for the RMA if there is one?

And should I trust this drive?

Pc


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