I have a sATA seagate drive with the 5 yr warranty that i purchased in May. Apparently sATA is quite flakey. Several months ago some of the sectors of the drive went bad. I used some program on Hirens boot CD to do a surface scan which fixed the errors and upon rebooting widnows ran chkdsk to fix file structure issues. Today the drive is doing the same thing, only this time the error is in a location that will at least allow me to run safemode. Now if I could just figure out which program I used, some of them won't recognize sATA, damn 'new' technology.

Would sectors failing like this be considered a warranty issue?

12/21/2006 9:20:23 PM

yes, get a utility that runs a SMART check on the drive, it should report errors as well

bad sectors are definitely a warranty issue, but you might be able to find the Seagate warranty info on their website, look that shit up to be sure

12/21/2006 9:29:58 PM