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Re: Western Digital Replacement of Defective Drives

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From: Steve Bourgeois
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 00:00
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In article <33202898.11091267@news.gville.mindspring.com>, 
rasputin@mindspring.com says...
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>Quick question, Western Digital  removed the utility for checking the
>harddrive, correct? Does anyone know when the new improved utility
>will be available? Thanks in advance.
>"The Mad Monk"

There is a version 1.2 of the wdverify program.  They had to Fedex
it to me and I had to retest my drive before they'd send me a new
one.

The original program reported error 1205, the new one reported 1204.

They finally did agree to replace my drive.


Steve


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From: sbourgeo@ici.net (Steve Bourgeois)
Subject: Re: Western Digital Replacement of Defective Drives
Date: 1997/03/07
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