SP4002H Samsung HDD probs

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Howdy, hope this is the right forum for this question. I have a
Samsung hard drive, model SP4002H, 40GB that keeps giving me problems.
I bought it new in April 2003. In May 2004 it crapped out on me and
Samsung exchanged hard drives with me, giving me a re-furbished used
drive. It arrived in June.

It is now nine months later and the drive is giving me problems again.
I have it partitioned into four parts. Drive G and H keep disappearing
and then reappearing, and ScandDisk keeps wanting to run on those two.

I ran the Samsung diagnotic program and it tells me that I have
problems and want to do a low level format of the drive, but I will
lose all data by doing this. Never fear, I am backed up! But what I
would like to know is can I do a format from DOS on just the drives
that are giving me problems and not affect the other drives? Or should
I format the whole drive and start over, or is my drive trashed and
just get another one from Samsung? I like how quiet these drives are,
but if I have to replace the damn thing every 9-12 months, that's not
acceptable.
 
seabat said:
Howdy, hope this is the right forum for this question. I have a
Samsung hard drive, model SP4002H, 40GB that keeps giving me problems.
I bought it new in April 2003. In May 2004 it crapped out on me and
Samsung exchanged hard drives with me, giving me a re-furbished used
drive. It arrived in June.

It is now nine months later and the drive is giving me problems again.
I have it partitioned into four parts. Drive G and H keep disappearing
and then reappearing, and ScandDisk keeps wanting to run on those two.

I ran the Samsung diagnotic program and it tells me that I have
problems and want to do a low level format of the drive, but I will
lose all data by doing this. Never fear, I am backed up! But what I
would like to know is can I do a format from DOS on just the drives
that are giving me problems and not affect the other drives? Or should
I format the whole drive and start over, or is my drive trashed and
just get another one from Samsung? I like how quiet these drives are,
but if I have to replace the damn thing every 9-12 months, that's not
acceptable.
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What exactly does the diagnostic program report? There is a commercial
program called SPINRITE which would give a diagnosis of the state of the
drive, but it is not free. I would get the drive replaced if I were in your
position.
Mike.
 
seabat said:
Howdy, hope this is the right forum for this question. I have a
Samsung hard drive, model SP4002H, 40GB that keeps giving me problems.
I bought it new in April 2003. In May 2004 it crapped out on me and
Samsung exchanged hard drives with me, giving me a re-furbished used
drive. It arrived in June.

It is now nine months later and the drive is giving me problems again.
I have it partitioned into four parts. Drive G and H keep disappearing
and then reappearing, and ScandDisk keeps wanting to run on those two.

I ran the Samsung diagnotic program and it tells me that I have
problems and want to do a low level format of the drive, but I will
lose all data by doing this. Never fear, I am backed up! But what I
would like to know is can I do a format from DOS on just the drives
that are giving me problems and not affect the other drives? Or should
I format the whole drive and start over, or is my drive trashed and
just get another one from Samsung? I like how quiet these drives are,
but if I have to replace the damn thing every 9-12 months, that's not
acceptable.
Click to expand...

I've never done a low level format, but I'm pretty certain that it
needs to be done to the whole drive, not just the troublesome
partitions.
 
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