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WD 10.2G Controller error

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wvital

wvital

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Nov 7, 2003
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I'm running WinXP Pro and have a 1G PIII on a 1G motherboard. My HD is a WD10.2G EIDE. I get error messages periodically from XP stating that it found a controller error. Is it a software/driver problem or is my HD going bad?

 
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Could be drive, mainboard, or both. Considering the failure rate we had with WD 10 and 20 gig drives, I suspect the drive first. I'd look to ghost it to a newer one while you can, at the very least, backup data.

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