Another HDD issue

[blasterboomer]

Re: Another HDD issue

Results from the WD diagnostics

[Sparkey55]

Re: Another HDD issue

Turn the drive upside down and rerun the same tests again.

[keeney123]

Re: Another HDD issue

Thanks blasterboomer for running that test. Sparkey 55 your pretty funny. Of course one could put the drive on the same speed motor and try to make sure it is always seeking and writing with the pull of gravity.
I will take these error codes and bring them back to the source WD and see if they have a better explanation. Will post findings if they get back to me.

[blasterboomer]

Re: Another HDD issue

ok, thanks

[keeney123]

Re: Another HDD issue

This is the response from WD. They will need the serial number of the HD so it will be best for you to respond to them. You may attach this email and just explain that I was trying to help you.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: Another HDD issue

The quick test failing may be a bad PCB.

[blasterboomer]

Re: Another HDD issue

swapping pcbs with an identical drive does nothing, the good drive still works and the bad drive is stil bad..

The serial number for this hdd is WD-WCAP91563011

[keeney123]

Re: Another HDD issue

I sent the message with serial number. The pictures of the WD test. Told them it work on a vista and Windows 7 as a VM. So we will see if they know anything.

[keeney123]

Re: Another HDD issue

All they could tell me is that bad blocks or sectors caused your HD to run slow. They did offer 25% off of a new HD . I attached the reply from WD.

[reaper57]

Re: Another HDD issue

Yeah sometimes it's slowed down, but still usable, but in most cases (in my experience), it's pretty much unusable.
But hey, at least you are getting 25% off of a new HDD! They could have just told you that your warranty has expired.

[keeney123]

Re: Another HDD issue

Seems to me that the bad sectors are in disk management space of the bad drive. For some reason your software will not permanently reallocate that space.