Macrium saved my bacon

Sven1458 · 04 May 2015

My hard drive failed.
I was getting constant " program not responding" and was getting nervous, so I backed every thing up and sure enough, today it would not start at all.
Also, windows was telling me : could not access your hard drive, that happens, but could be a sign of HD failure."
got me a new drive and restored with Macrium and all is fine.

This post is just to let every one know: BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP.

any one know what the warranty for a Seagate 500gb hard drive is.

Sven

fireberd · 05 May 2015

Generally, most hard drives have a 5 year warranty. I don't know specifically about the one you have. Check with Seagate.

Lady Fitzgerald · 05 May 2015

Actually, most Seagates now have a one year warranty. Seagate has been known to apply the shorter warranty to older drives that had a two year warranty. A few of the higher priced models have warranties up to five years so I would check with Seagate to see if you might get lucky.

Macrium Reflect has saved my ~~bacon~~ data numerous times. I use it to backup my OS and programs drive or partition (depending on which machine I'm referring to). I prefer to use a folder/file syncing program (FreeFileSync) to backup my data drives/partitions.

Sven1458 · 05 May 2015

I found out that the warranty is one year and my drive is almost two years old.
I expected that it was one year, that is why I purchased a new drive without waiting for Seagate.
thanks
Sven