Hello fellow posters.
I have a WD Caviar Black Caviar 2TB, WD2002FAEX, and it has a strange problem.
After like a year of normal use, it suffered some sort of lock up, causing Windows 7 to take a very long time to boot. It would eventually boot, and Windows Explorer would see the drive was there but if I clicked to try and access the contents WE would freeze.
EDIT: Actually it caused Windows 7 to take a long time to boot as a secondary hard drive, if it was the primary the OS probably wouldnt even load.
Also, Windows 7 disk manager could also see the drive but not be able to manage the partitions in any way.
Then I tried formatting the drive with some third party partition management tool (IIRC it was Gparted) and I managed to format the drive, and it came back to normal. I passed a complete surface test (using the W7 tool) on it and it had zero defective clusters.
I thought everything was good and started to fill the drive again. After some weeks (perhaps some months) the drive suffered the same lock up, and exhibited the same behavior as before.
Again I used a tool to format the drive and right now it seems to be working normally but now I know this drive can´t be trusted.
What could possibly be the problem of this drive? If the surface is intact, what else could be the culprit of this?
Is there anything I can do besides RMAing it? I´d rather not do this if there is something else I can do (seems unlikely).
I have a WD Caviar Black Caviar 2TB, WD2002FAEX, and it has a strange problem.
After like a year of normal use, it suffered some sort of lock up, causing Windows 7 to take a very long time to boot. It would eventually boot, and Windows Explorer would see the drive was there but if I clicked to try and access the contents WE would freeze.
EDIT: Actually it caused Windows 7 to take a long time to boot as a secondary hard drive, if it was the primary the OS probably wouldnt even load.
Also, Windows 7 disk manager could also see the drive but not be able to manage the partitions in any way.
Then I tried formatting the drive with some third party partition management tool (IIRC it was Gparted) and I managed to format the drive, and it came back to normal. I passed a complete surface test (using the W7 tool) on it and it had zero defective clusters.
I thought everything was good and started to fill the drive again. After some weeks (perhaps some months) the drive suffered the same lock up, and exhibited the same behavior as before.
Again I used a tool to format the drive and right now it seems to be working normally but now I know this drive can´t be trusted.
What could possibly be the problem of this drive? If the surface is intact, what else could be the culprit of this?
Is there anything I can do besides RMAing it? I´d rather not do this if there is something else I can do (seems unlikely).