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August 1st 05, 05:48 PM
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Long hard drive access times...
Hi. Twice today one of my older drives, a Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM
Diamondmax Plus 9 hard drive took about 15 seconds to read/write data. This is the first time it has taken so long to access data. The first time was when I was saving a spreadsheet to it. Excel stopped responding for about 15 seconds, then everything went back to normal. The second time happened at the Command Prompt, I was doing a "dir" and it also froze for a while. Should I start making a recent backup of my data right now? I've downloaded the Powermax bootable ISO and will run a diagnostic tonight... Incidentally this is a replacement drive for a previous 80GB Maxtor, which died due to SMART failure and the 'click of death'... If it got replaced about 2 years ago will my warranty still be valid? 
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