G'day Mac,
your comments are appreciated, but with all due respect, we haven't been fooled into suspecting a faulty HDD by a software cause in many, many years...

As for disliking one brand of HDD WRT another - fault rates speak for themselves - I have reported what we have seen, not bias - the only bias I admit to is being highly suspicious of m$...

Which reminds me, Mario - I'd guess that despite what the label says, your Maxtor is probably a Seagate drive. I'm pretty sure that when Seagate acquired Maxtor they shut down the old Quantum and Maxtor factories... Though they did run out the old stock.

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