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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:31:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: IDE drive dying
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On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Khetan Gajjar wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Doug White wrote:
> 
> >If bad sectors are poking through I'd suggest buying a new disk anyway
> >since it'll only get worse.
> >
> The first thing I did was back everything up, but I'd prefer not
> to have to buy another 2 gig drive so soon after my last 4 gig.
> 

If you just bought it new then it's defective, get a warranty replacement.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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