Best Answer: It can be anywhere from 1-3 years. If you have the serial number of the drive, you may be able to contact Seagate to determine how long of a warranty you have left.
Re:thanks LOL… i never thought i could have so many problems with a brand new drive
Re:Hmm…might actually be that your hard drive is messed up. I think bad sectors are causing the formats to freeze. I tried formatting this drive at work that had some bad sectors…and it would format, then try to allocate a sector and repair it. That process took a really long time, and it looked like it froze, but it didnt. Try doing a low-level format using Seagates utility. The first time I zero-filled the drive at work, it froze also. Then I tried a low-level format, and then another zero-fill and finally got it working so that I could install Windows on it. Good luck dude…
Re:Also, it won't let me zero fill the 40gb drive anymore… when i tried that, it just failed after zero filling 63 blocks and then when i restarted, both drives went misisng again…
Re:It wasn't the zero fill that took 5 hours… it took 5 hours for me to format normally from a boot disk =(
Re:<< Yeah, I'm resetting the BIOS right now. My instincts tell me that my hard drives are fine… doesn't a zero fill format reset everything on the hard drive anyway? >>
Zero filling erases everything on the drive and all the information that was stored on the drive by BIOS. It takes longer to do this, hence your 5 hours. Usually, Seagate's low-level format utility, which just does a quick erase of your hard drive takes about 5-10 minutes. I would go with Warcon's suggestion and get Seagate's diagnostic utility. You can run it off the CD that you get when you purchase the drive. I had a problem booting, so I zero-filled the drive, and I had to fiddle around with it because BIOS was only showing that I had 8GB of a 60GB drive. But everything is working now. Hope this helps.
Re:Go get the diagnostic software from Seagate and use it to diag both drives. It might be able to tell you whats up.
Re:Okay, the 80gb formatted in about 5 hours. That seems a litte slow to me. But so far I can boot off it… I just hope when I restart the computer, it will still work, because the last couple times I did that when using the 40gb as the boot drive, the drives weren't detected.
I disconnected the 80gb first and tried formatting the 40gb but it froze before it could format and when i rebooted, the drive went missing again. So I tried the 80gb instead and so far so good, though that 5 hour format doesn't really help my confidence in the drive (or motherboard). Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
Re:Yeah, I'm resetting the BIOS right now. My instincts tell me that my hard drives are fine… doesn't a zero fill format reset everything on the hard drive anyway?
Re:Start from scratch. Take the drives out to a known good computer and set them as slaves to the good computers hard drive. Then reformat the drives. then reset the bios on the bad computer and restart from ground zero. Good luck
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