Shoutbox

So, like 2 months ago I treated myself to a Samsung HD501LJ - 500GB 7200RPM with a decent cache.

It arrived, I divided up my HD (250gb allocated to NTFS partition, rest left blank for the moment) and install XP X64. All good.

Today, I decided to start using the other 250gb. Bad idea. It seems the 3rd platter is dead - when you try to access it it makes a dodgy clicking noise (almost as if the head is kicking a screw about inside the drive), hangs for a second, then accesses the data.

I'm pretty damned paranoid about it now, so I thought "warranty replacement" plx.

Except... Samsung's website doesn't seem to work at all in Firefox, or correctly in IE7. And there's no contact e-mail.

So I'm going to have to phone them. I hate phones.

Oh well. At least my new 20G EEE 901 has solid state...