I think I picked up a lemon. First, I tried on 3 different computers and no matter which one I used, the file transfer is taking well excess of 45 minutes to 1 hour for about 500 digital pictures (2~3MB each JPEG) and sometimes there are some s-s-s-stuttering every few minutes that causes the transfer to pause for a few minutes.
I tried a full format (not quick) and it always failed. I tried scanning with check and recover bad sectors checked, it gets stuck at cluster 392008 and has not changed for the last 10 minutes. I was able to scan through the first 392000 in just a few seconds.
I tried to return it but the store I got it (Meijer) did not have any replacement in stock and claimed I can’t get refund because since there are software on the drive, the hard drive falls under their no-refund on open software policy. I could try a different Meijer if they got em in stock for exchange but it’s about 50 miles to next nearest Meijer and with gas at $4 a gallon it’d cost me more to exchange than it’d be to just ship this drive to WD for RMA.
So, is my drive a dud or am I doing somew=thing wrong to make the hard drive not work right? Computers used:
Laptop -Windows 7 Premium 32 bits -USB 2.0 only
desktop #1: Windows 7 Premium 64 bits -USB 2.0 and 3.0
desktop #2: Windows 7 Professional 64 bits -USB 2.0 and 3.0
Other hard drives I’ve plugged in those compuer usually could copy 500 pictures in a few minutes, not over 45 minutes like this one did.
