Western Digital 1000bb DEAD? [frequent crashes] [western digital]
Q: Hi guys,
Bought WD 1000bb from a recent CompUSA sale . I got frequent crashes so I thought it was the heat (the system that I put it in a Dell-L-series with a sucky ventilation) so today I removed the drive to put a fan.
I plug it back in and see the drive is suddenly not feed up
ive in a few other systems and no joy
is this thing dead? if so, why? I have handled quite well, hell I do this all the stuff is wrong time
wtf
Best Answer: the flashing light your seeing just means the hard drive is busy….it normal…..
Re:Hahaha, my WD 800JB just died on me too.
I was runnig it fine for like 5 hours…….then all of a sudden i get some sort of "stop error" in windows 2000, with a blue screen. it insructs me to reboot if this is the first time it has happened and since i was installing it in a new system, it was……….so i just rebooted…….and like you said…….it doesn't power up
so my bios doesn't detect it at all.
Re:Thanks guys…just needed to confirm that the drive was dead before doing anything. Sometimes I just cant trust myself even though I am with these things so much.
Just took it to Crapusa, returned it, manager gave me a full refund,
now im just gonna get me a nice MAXTOR, never had problems with those things
Re:In my opinion, you should just return the drive to CompUSA and exchange it. That way, you won't have to deal with sending them the drive and all that stuff. You can get a replacement right away. Like most retail stores, CompUSA should not charge you 15% restocking fee since the drive was faulty.
Re:WD has a good RMA dept.
Re:thanks for the reply
btw, do you think I could just take this thing to CrapUSA and return it? I mean I have 14 days dont I?
Will they take a restocking fee if the thing's broken?
I dont usually deal with them thats why dont have much experience. THis is my first HD from them.
Re:I have had a rash of bad HDD's from WD here lately. RMA it. Better safe than sorry.
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