This is weird. The other day my mom calls me up and has me rush over because her computer is squealing like a pig. I come over and find it sitting at the Memory Countdown screen saying the HD failed to boot. The squealing was nasty and I assumed something inside had died. I took the case off and listened and it was the HD making the awful squealing.

So I shut the computer down and tell her i have to download maxtor's software to test it and get a code so I can try to RMA it.

I come back today and put the disk in and it finds NOTHING wrong with it. So I yank the disk out and boot it up and low and behold Win2k boots up as if nothing had happened. No corrupt data, no loss of data, nothing.

This does not make sense to me because normally when a part fails it doesn't get healed and not lose something.

Anyway this also frustrates me because this is a fairly new HD. I had it in my computer up till about 6-8 months ago when it died in my computer and I RMA'ed it and they sent me a new one (this one). While waiting for the replacement I had bought another so I put this one in my mom's computer. Unfortunately apparently the warrenty for the replacement is on the same warrenty as the original because it expired on 7-30-04. I hope to talk them into replacing it anyway since it was a replacement drive in the first place. So if it all of a sudden starts working ok now then it will be that much harder for me to get them to agree to replace it.

Anybody heard of anything like this happening before?