When my 80 gig(with a nice story below) went, all I could do was put it up as slave(as mentioned) and try to get as much data off as I could...the deal is, since doing a Scandisk/Norton deal may corrupt data more(read: will) so in order to get the data off, you have to get the data off one by one and watch where the corruption starts and stops. This is kinda time consuming because if the hard drive starts having trouble accessing, you'll have to be paitent and wait for the drive to load up on screen(in my case it took 10 minutes just to view root, let alone a sub directory!).
I'd put off the DiamondMax for awhile until people stop complaining about them(me included).
So far this Segate Baracuda IV 80 gig has put up with my constant downloading and deleteion of files. The Maxtor(5400 RPM model), gave up after I had about 8 gigs total space left and started making the infamous "CLICK OF DOOM".
They'll proably sort the issue out...but right now i'd steer clear. And I like Maxtors.
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