On Dienstag, 25. September 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > > so it is still covered by warranty? Replace it! > > > > > Can I just let this slide? > > > > no, replace it. > > Tried to. Maxtor insists that you run a special boot > disk which supposedly spits out a number code that > tells them what the problem is. Every time I ran the > program it said my drive was fine. No code, no > replacement. The problem I was having then was the > drive could not be booted from the very beginning. You > could dual boot from another drive or another > partition OK by tweaking grub. > > But this particular problem is something new. > > Maxtor was very unhelpful and linux-illiterate. I > won't be buying another drive from them if I can avoid > it.
when I asked my local hardware 'dealer' which drives have the highest return rate he instantly said 'maxtor' .... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
