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Dimension 8400 Maxtor 250 7Y250MO Failure
"Hard drive failed after only 16 months. All diagnostics say it is dead. Dell advise they will not do anything I'm so out of luck . What do you want for $1,700 bucks????
Many Many posting of this drive failing. Especially with Dell but they do nothing.
Installed a Seagate with a 5 year warranty. Stay away from Maxtor and if you have one suggest you run a diagnostics before the waranty runns out or you will be so out of luck just like me!"
- I installed a new hard drive, Was not so simple. Dell supplied my operating system (XP Media Edition) on a DVD but installed my DVD Drive as a slave so could not boot from it. Lost a day until I figured that out. Also did not ship with all drivers so had to go to Dell to download. Was easy with the service tag however what If I did not have another computer??? All Up and running with a new Seagate Barracuda 250 G.
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Posted July 31st, 2006 22:00
sambuca
Thank's for the heads up. Ain't computers fun. :smileyhappy:Bev.- I am on my second Maxtor 250, and it is failing. I am going to install, at my expense, two WD 320 SATA drives in a raid mirror set up. I am tired of not having a pc that is working properly. Noticed on another forum that a gentleman was on his 4th Maxtor, apparently also within the warranty period. I have been storing my data on 3 WD external HD's attached to the 8400. The 82801FB controller is supposed to support a mirrored arrangement and WD's tech rep stated that they will walk me through it. A very nice computer, but the tech support is lacking. And I paid for home service. This will be my last Dell.
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Posted July 28th, 2006 22:00
sambuca
The system must have been out of warranty :smileysurprised:
Bev.