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Last night after a reboot, for reasons unclear, one of my harddrives
faield to be recognized by Windows. This is the exact error message:
"E:\ is not accessible. The disc structure is corrupted and unreadable."

The good news is I've been able to recover the data using some software,
and Windows disk management reports the drive to be healthy. However,
I'm worried about the condition and reliability of the drive.

My question is, is this scenario a valid reason to return the drive to
the manufacturer? It's a Seagate 7200.7 200gb ATA drive. Thanks.

Shawn

"Shawn" <> wrote in message news:...
> Last night after a reboot, for reasons unclear, one of my harddrives
> faield to be recognized by Windows. This is the exact error message:
> "E:\ is not accessible. The disc structure is corrupted and unreadable."
>
> The good news is I've been able to recover the data using some software,
> and Windows disk management reports the drive to be healthy. However,
> I'm worried about the condition and reliability of the drive.
>
> My question is, is this scenario a valid reason to return the drive to
> the manufacturer? It's a Seagate 7200.7 200gb ATA drive. Thanks.
>
> Shawn

Just out of curiosity, in the Device Manager next to IDE Disk Controllers,
is there a yellow question or exclamation mark?
>

mark mandel wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, in the Device Manager next to IDE Disk Controllers,
> is there a yellow question or exclamation mark?

I am not seeing problems with the controller, although I did try to resintall
the Nvidia Nforce drivers last night. As I recall Nforce2 has some kind of 'SW
IDE' drivers. Maybe my attempt to reverse the driver version caused my
problem?

You may want to check to see if Seagate has a diagnostic utility on their
web site. Some vendors will not accept a drive for repair/replacement unless
it fails the diagnostic utility.

You should check the Seagate website and you will find your answers there as
well as software
"bmoag" <> wrote in message
news:ye4Ic.8905$ m...
> You may want to check to see if Seagate has a diagnostic utility on their
> web site. Some vendors will not accept a drive for repair/replacement
unless
> it fails the diagnostic utility.
>
>


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"HF" <> wrote in message
news:...
> You should check the Seagate website and you will find your answers there
as
> well as software

Yep, you just download onto two floppies and your hard drive needn't be a
Seagate either.
> "bmoag" <> wrote in message
> news:ye4Ic.8905$ m...
> > You may want to check to see if Seagate has a diagnostic utility on
their
> > web site. Some vendors will not accept a drive for repair/replacement
> unless
> > it fails the diagnostic utility.
> >
> >
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bmoag wrote:

> You may want to check to see if Seagate has a diagnostic utility on their
> web site. Some vendors will not accept a drive for repair/replacement unless
> it fails the diagnostic utility.

Yes I remembered it and checked my drive with Seagate's SeaTools, but the full
scan didn't come up with an error. I guess I won't really know why the drive
failed.