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What a coincidence, the store I went to did not have a XPS 16 so I choose an XPS 15 instead :mrgreen:

I need a decent gaming laptop under 55k I've looked at the following options till now.. Dell Studio XPS 16 Toshiba Satellite A660D-ST2G02 Acer Aspire 5741G-6983 HP Envy 14 Does anyone have any better suggestions? I hear the XPS 16 has heating problems. I'll game for no more than 60-90...

Thanks for all your help. Unfortunately I don't have access to another PC. I'll try RMA'ing this. Hope I can find the box for the drive though.

I've reinstalled XP nearly twice or thrice, to no avail.. However, I disabled write caching on the disk yesterday, and since then it seems to be working fine. But this might be temporary (Similar bouts of luck have come a few times before, but never for this long..). And now my 250GB HDD is...

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Okay, HD Sentinel changes things... It shows health of my 250GB HDD as 100%(with 0 bad sectors) and that of my 500GB HDD as 95%(with 5 bad sectors). What does create RMA mean? Should I erase everything from the HDD before sending it? (It has a lot of personal info, and probably some important...

In many cases the HDD is not even detected by windows (the BIOS detects it though). When it is detected, I get health as 72%, performance as 63% and temp as 43 Degrees. The health is shown differently by different software, apparently. Here is the entire report as generated by Ashampoo HDD...

Come on guys..anybody?

Its good to know I'm not the only one with such problems. Could it be a problem with the SATA cables?

Oops, I forgot to mention, both the drives are SATA drives and the 250GB one is probably master (how do I check? Windows is installed on the 250GB drive btw, if it helps).

I have two hard disks, both from Seagate: 1. 250GB and contains the system partition (a few years old) 2. 500GB and is used for storage (1-2 years old) (problem with this one) The 500GB HDD is divided into two partitions G: and H: Recently I've been getting errors like the one in the attached...