"Trimble" <hughwb@tesco.net> wrote in message
news:1175117753.847452.256940@p77g2000hsh.googlegr oups.com...
> @@@@
>
> I have A Maxtor 120Gig IDE...after 18 months of home 6 hour per day
> use as the XP system disk.
> On a number of occasions it would suddenly freeze
> with a few loud clicks until the sys. was restarted ..when a few files
> were
> found to
> be damaged...eventually this damaged some system files & I have had
> to get another disk & reinstall everything (not fun !)
>
> This failure was due I have decided, because the drive was positioned
> so as
> to overheat .
> ..in a corner of the comp. on top of the DVD burner.
>
> The SMART tester I run shows all the checks as OK except for
> "Re-allocated Sector Count" shown as fail..I have Low Level re-
> formatted
> it with the same SMART test results afterwards .
>

*any* SMART error is sufficient to justify *never* using the driver again...
check the warranty though...you may be eligible for a replacement



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