[techtalk] Re: Disk errors in Event Viewer

  • From: Andrew Davidson <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: techtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 17:55:20 +0100

At 17:10 23/05/2004, you wrote:
>Hi Andrew
>
>On 23-May-04, Andrew Davidson wrote:
>
> > No, that's bollicks.  They'll replace drives without a code.
>
>Do you have any particular method of bypassing their
>online RMA system without a code ?

Just select "Drive is no longer recognised by the system" - you can't give 
a failure code if the PC can't see it, can you? :)  This method has worked 
for over a year and maybe 20 drives.  Some drives were total flame-outs, 
others just noisy or a few bad sectors.

Andrew 



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