No just coincedence, Get a new hard drive and install xp to it and get all the drivers and updates, then mount the old dying hard drive in the computer and maybe you can copy any data you want to save before it dies completely. The more times you spin up the dying drive the less chance you have of saving your data.
Thanks. There aren't any files I need on the old hard drive.
I've had two hard drives fail in the past month. The Seagate was 13 mo old and the Samsung was 12 mo old.
What are the best quality hard drives? I had a gateway for 8 years and compaq for 5 years and neither ever had a hard drive fail (don't know what brand HD they had though).
Everybody has different luck with brands of harddrives, I have used Western Digital for a long time but have switched to Seagate recently because of the 5 Year warranty, does yours still have a warranty?
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I've had two hard drives fail in the past month. The Seagate was 13 mo old and the Samsung was 12 mo old.
What are the best quality hard drives? I had a gateway for 8 years and compaq for 5 years and neither ever had a hard drive fail (don't know what brand HD they had though).
Message Edited by tmilhyn on 07-23-200608:27 PM
Message Edited by tmilhyn on 07-23-200608:27 PM
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