Hey all,

I bought a new Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80GB drive about 3 weeks ago (model 6Y080P0 - 8MB cache). Today when I turned the comp on it was taking forever on the XP loading screen, then it started running Chkdsk. I noticed it picked up quite a few orphan fragments, and some other stuff. So it rebooted and Windows loaded but still very slowly. I decided to get it to run Chkdsk again, and again some more (but fewer) errors. Finally a third time it brought up nothing, and booting was as quick as before. However, now I have 100KB in bad sectors.

Chkdsk report:
40041980 KB total disk space.
14595600 KB in 42703 files.
12724 KB in 1984 indexes.
100 KB in bad sectors.
119536 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
25314020 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
10010495 total allocation units on disk.
6328505 allocation units available on disk.

What should I do? I haven't long finished installing all the software and getting everything to how I like it and now I could be looking at an RMA. Very annoying.

I was thinking I should leave it a while and see if any more bad sectors develop, as then I could think the drive was dying. You don't expect this after only 3 weeks.