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hard drive failure
Name: kevin Date: October 31, 2003 at 11:36:42 Pacific OS: win2000 CPU/Ram: 1.8 ghz / 256 mg
Comment:
Hi I have around 100 windows 2000 desktops on a Win NT 4.0 network. I ghost the desktops from the network with a ghost server. Lately I have many hard disk failures. MY windows 2000 installation is with NTFS file system. I have no choice but to buy and change hard disk, but I don’t know why I have this problem lately? Any ideas? thanks
Name: dannyboy Date: October 31, 2003 at 11:41:37 Pacific
Reply:
we have experienced the same thing with a recent installation of Win 2k server with about 50 XP Pro workstations. At least 7 HD's died in the first 2 months.
This was at the end of an unusually hot British summer, and the building they were in was like a sauna sometimes.
I put it down to either the heat or a batch problem. They were all Maxtors, what make were yours, out of interest?
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Response Number 2
Name: opman Date: October 31, 2003 at 13:34:23 Pacific
Reply:
just a note:
HP announced that they have had a problem with Fujitsu hard drives failing and was going through a replacement process.
Not sure if this helps, but it does mean that there is a possiblity that some other manufactures are having problems with bad hard drives
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