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Mikan:
I got another Hammer Morespace 1TB and today after i transferred more anime onto it my O-R folder and the new shows I added the folders where all empty. When I tried to Error check the disk it kept giving me an error saying it couldn't check anything.  I tried calling hammers technical support line and it was horrible, 1 weird lady who couldn't help me.

Takeshi:
I assume it's only been days since you bought. Try having it search for errors. Try re-formatting it the long way. Which file system are you using on it? Try changing it?

Mikan:
A week actually, Havent cared to open it yet since I didnt need it. its in NTSF

I have 650gb of stuff on there :/ re formatting will be my last option. on phase 2 of error check it says "Windows was unable to complete check"

Takeshi:
Being new it should work perfectly.

I say keep phoning them down, find a way to backup your stuff since it's likely to go to repair. There's three ways to check your harddrive.

Right click on it, click Properties, click functions, there's should be a tool which can search for errors. Now you can either check them all, check one of them, or check none, two will be able to do the check while the computer is on, while one of them will do it while restarting.

^Have you tried all of them?

Get a Western Digital next time, lots of people on BakaBT have been satisfied with them. I haven't had any problems with my WD Elements 1TB.

Mikan:
I got it, Ripped out the hdd and threw it in a spare case and it works fine. Turns out hammer uses fairly, Average hdd's (Hitachi, Which is what HP uses so meh) I guess I overkilled something on the board. Seems I always do that :/ (This would be the second time) It happened to my seagate too. Its really noisy though in the new case.

*For anyone looking into hammer products, just DONT. tech support is ONE i repeat ONE person! you wont go in circles, just rather usually come to a dead end. Im sticking with Calvary. Western Digital is to expensive for me unless its on sale, and Calvary uses WD drives anyways :]

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