Is there anyone following this?
I got my new drive this morning, start copying files, 3 files were corrupt and couldn’t be copied.
Anyway, I ran the test early this morning, while the test is running, there are no noises, but the test stoped at sector 1563840767 of 1953525167, when it reaches this sector, the noises come again, and it wont advance from there, I left it for several hours, and ran the test twice, with the same results.
More important I have to reset the computer to do anything at all, because, even tough the PC it’s not freeze, because the number of minutes left on the test goes up, I can’t cancel it nor use the rest of the computer.
Earlier this week, I ran the same “extended test” from WD “Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows”, but cancel it before it ends, then a message pops up offering me to repair the HDD, I’ll try to do this later, because for today I had it with this.
I think that the noise is from that error check in the firmware, but it’s not faulty, the thing is, that there are corrupt files in the disc, and its trying to fix them. So probably if you are hearing this noises, you’ve lost some data already, please confirm using “Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows” or something like it.
P.S.: If some is reading, please post anything, because it’s not worth posting here otherwise.
P.P.S.: If you are living in Canada or USA, CALL 800-ASK-4WDC and demand some answers.