• Seagate Baracuda 1TB. Trouble installing now errors in HD Tune
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Hey guys, I've got a Seagate 1TB Baracuda. I had lots of trouble installing it (at first my Windows 7 machine would lock up entirely when I tried to format the drive. When I got it formatted the system would lock up when I tried to copy large amounts of files to it. I installed XP and tried again. After many 'Windows cannot format the drive' errors I eventually got it working. Now I get this in HD Tune [URL=http://img194.imageshack.us/i/52697995.jpg/][IMG]http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6838/52697995.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [I]The blue-highlighted line is red when I've not clicked on it.[/I] and also get [B]Read error! Test aborted.[/B] when I try to run a read benchmark on the drive (HDTune). Any ideas?
I would say RMA.
Yeah. RMA it. Probably a faulty drive. Not very uncommon common I suppose since hard drives are a bit fragile.
Thanks for the help guys. I've taken it back and the store has replaced it. I'm on my own, however, if THIS one dies as the chances of three drives breaking and it NOT being a user-end fault is extremely low. Good thing I'll still have my Seagate warranty.
Seagate has shit drives, and even shittier support should you need to RMA to them. Pray this next one works.
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