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TopHat
04-12-2006, 08:32 PM
Just wondering what you guys would think of this.

It's been a pretty common thing for me over the years which I've built my own pc's. Basically what the issue is is that when I reboot my pc (or in some cases do a hardboot), the setting in my msn get reset and sometimes files just get erased as if they were never on the system or they will be corrupt if they were in a download session.

I have a Seagate 7200 RPM ATA-133 drive with 120GB, not sure about the buffer size though. Just wondering if there is any diagnostic tools available to show if the drive is slowly nearing it's death even though it's only a year old, though an OEM when purchased.

BB_One
04-13-2006, 12:21 AM
Odd problem - hardboot, corruption and all understandable sort of speak - missing files and what not , that one is odd BUT MSM=Microsoft, sometimes one needs to just kind of ignore it or search the web for those same specific symptoms, might find you are not alone and could be cause by something else.

In any case here is diagnostic utility for seagate and should you have a need for other drives try the other link...

http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/seatoold_reg.html

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287