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Reply With QuoteSounds like a bad drive. RMA should be easy to get.
My hard drive never even went in the car!! I've had it for about half a year, I've used it for a couple different things, but nothing that would bang it around. It was actually in my laptop for a couple months.
It's a 15GB travelstar, every time I try to format it, it comes up with bad sectors.. it is currently showing at 8GB. I can't get anything to install stabily on it. I keep ending up with corrupted .dll's and drivers
Think I could get an RMA on it?
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Sounds like a bad drive. RMA should be easy to get.
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Unless its an OEM drive it has a three year warranty. So go to ibm's page and request the rma
i'm having same problem with my IBM Deskstar, i believe its OEM, am i screwed?
Just go to IBM's Storage site,
http://www.storage.ibm.com/warranty/jsp/arma51.jsp
they have a process to verify the warranty status of the drives. If the drive was bought seperately, you should be ok. If it was a pull from a brand name laptop, you've got a nice paperweight.
-Lee
whoot, bought seperatly :> thanks for the link
funny this thread has come up... my 40GB IBM deskstar in my mp3car system has just died - a little more than 9-10months
im going to get a Western digital 40GB drive tomorrow from the markets - and forget trying to save a few bucks on a cheaper (and in my opinion) an inferior hard drive..... never will I buy IBM drives again... I have too much trubble with em...
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ACtually, shortly, you wont be able to buy a IBM HDOriginally posted by magnetik
funny this thread has come up... my 40GB IBM deskstar in my mp3car system has just died - a little more than 9-10months
im going to get a Western digital 40GB drive tomorrow from the markets - and forget trying to save a few bucks on a cheaper (and in my opinion) an inferior hard drive..... never will I buy IBM drives again... I have too much trubble with em.... IBM sold their HDD manufacturing operations after having such trobles with the Deskstar 75GXP's, and some intermitent problems with the 60GXP's. And I've had both of my 75gxp's (they were the fastest ide drive on the market) die on me, and one of my five 60gxps
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Man that sucks, I remember when IBM used to be at the top of the laptop HDD market. Who is on top now?
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