I will post my experiences, since I do alot of this myself...not the final
word since I am not a hard drive expert....
>1. I saw a hard drive for sale, awhile ago, which said "It boots to c
>prompt and is autodetected but I cannot format the drive." etc.
>
>Is this a simple possible fix or symptoms of a more serious nature? I
>mean, If I could pick up this 2.1 gig drive for, say, 10 dollars or so
>what could I expect ? To throw it away? Sorry so vague, just looking
>for suggestions as to what this might be.
Usually when a drive autodetects there is a good chance it is salvageable.
But I have encountered a drive that does exactly what what the explaination
says and I cannot get it fdisk or format...If it autodetects and fdisks,
then it should be able to format....
>
>2. and another hard drive which spins up, autodetects, but then gives a
>"Write Protect Error" I believe it was a WD 3.2
seems like this could be remedied through a maintenance process...but I have
never encountered or fixed such an animal....
>
>3. Last question, Has anyone bought a used hard drive and tried to send
>it in under warranty? I mean, do the biggies (WD, Seagate, Maxtor, etc)
>honor warranties from others than the original purchaser?
unless the drive was in a propietary system..ie Compaq, Acer, then you need
to get with a service center and supply them with a serial number of an unit
from the manufacturer....if it was in the open market, especially OEM, then
probably you can get it under a warranty situation....
>
>I need to quit looking at these online auctions. ha ha
no argument here, I have tried this and only gotten a ton of junk...on the
flip side, I have offered junk and represented as junk and gotten more money
that logic would suggest I should.....go figure....
Try the newsgroup misc.forsale.storage....you get better stuff for a very
good price if you bargain shop....much cheaper than auction sites...
Dave
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