If the system is under warranty, contact Dell for a replacement. If it was an after-purchase install, contact Maxtor - the warranty is still in effect (it is at least one year).
If you do buy another drive, look at Seagate, WD, Hitachi - and perhaps Samsung, but they may not have drives that size just yet. I would not buy another Maxtor, based on their lack of reliability of late.
Of course, the drive went bad about a month after my one-year warranty expired. I ran Maxtor's powermax utility and it confirmed the bad news about the drive. I'll take your advice and will go for another brand, something with more than a year's warranty. Thanks.
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If you do buy another drive, look at Seagate, WD, Hitachi - and perhaps Samsung, but they may not have drives that size just yet. I would not buy another Maxtor, based on their lack of reliability of late.
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Message Edited by igiveup1234 on 02-11-2005 06:35 PM
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igiveup1234.
Check out Seagate HDs, some of their drives have a five year warranty, for just a few dollars more.
Bev.