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Old 30 May 2009, 08:28 PM
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Had 2.5" seagate 250gb for about a year and my computer has slowly been playing up. Locking up when accessing folders also now and again I'll hear a scratching noise from the hdd.

I've filled in a rma am I right in doing this? The warranty is till 2013.

What's the turn around warranty claims?
Old 30 May 2009, 08:44 PM
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Are you happy sending back a hard drive containing (copies of) all of your e-mails, browsing history, cookies (which may include passwords), personal data etc.????

It is a bit of a dilemma!

You may want to check what options Seagate offer first!

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Old 30 May 2009, 09:08 PM
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they offer free replacement, and tbh a big company like seagate should be trust worthy. ive done a hard format on it too.
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Do alot of hard formats then put some cr@p data on there, you may be lucky and they may not be able to recover any of your data then
Anyway, they are dirt cheap now, take the old one out side, get hammer, smash, burn interior the only way they wont get any data off it

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