Hi, JB14.
Looks like your fingers - like mine quite often - are so used to typing "GB"
that "TB" often comes out wrong. :^{ I'm assuming that your new Seagates
are 1.5 terabyte each, not 1.5 gigabyte.
My 1 TB Seagate Barracuda is about a year old now and has given me no
problems. My system also has a 200 GB Maxtor and 2 matched 300 GB Seagate
Barracudas in a RAID 1 mirror. All are SATA II drives.
I've never had a larger drive than this 1 TB, but I've read that Seagate had
some problems with SOME models of its 1.5 TB drives. The problem seems to
have been fixed now, but you MAY have one of the specific models and you may
need a firmware update.
As always, it's best to start at the source, with the company that made the
drives:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/
Seagate's SeaTools program is available at that site and will do a good job
of analyzing your drives. If they fail the SeaTools test, Seagate will
offer an RMA (Return Materials Authorization) so that you can return them
for replacement under Seagate's excellent warranty.
RC
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"JB14" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> I have a Vista Ultimate 64 bit system using an ASUS striker II formula
> MB, Intel core 2 quad 2.66 mh CPU, 8 GB RAM. It was setup with 2 320 GB
> Seagate drives and a 500 GB Seagate drive in a RAID. A week and a half
> ago when shutting down the system, I got the install updates message. I
> clicked OK. Upon return, I found the system still running showing the
> BIOS screen. After reboot, I had a no operating system error. Using
> the Vista DVD to attempt repair, yielded a corrupt partition error. I
> attempted to reinstall Vista on one 320 GB drive. This gave a disk
> boot failure. After trying this and that, I ran chkdsk during boot
> which fixed the error.
> I want to recover my data. To facilitate recovery, I purchased 2 1.5
> GB Seagate drives. I have attempted to format the drives using computer
> management and safe mode with command prompt. The drives will get to
> 73% format but no farther. Please suggest a solution. I am not a
> computer expert. Thank you. JB
>
>
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> JB14
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