Hopefully the drive remains trouble-free for years to come. I've had gripes with newegg in the past dealing with mechanical HDDs. A dead on arrival drive required me to pay return shipping which annoyed me. Which makes it worse is their shipping and packaging let a lot to be desired. I now just buy my HDDs from Amazon.
Since you bought an SSD you should be fine.
Thank you for your good wishes.
Being the skeptic that I am regarding a drive that "seemed to be dead", I decided to install Win 7 Home Premium Edition....
and it worked. In fact it's surprisingly stable now, with me still working on the return to it's previous condition. For now, the Toshiba laptop is still alive. So that the forum members can determine just how alive it is, I attached the files from HD Tune's Health tab and Error Scan results, showing "irregularities" besides the 9 reallocated sectors that appeared after the drive's mishap. I'm not expecting a "prognosis" from anybody, but I'd like to know what the "irregularities" mean.
Due to a UPS mishap, namely attempting a delivery at 10:36AM yesterday when the service Newegg chose specified a 3PM to 7PM delivery, I missed yesterday's delivery. I'll have the drive today, though. I'll be on high alert!
In the event that any of my drives need diagnosis in the future, would anybody recommend an elaborate program for me to use? HD Tune is way too simple to get deep, deep deep into the drives "true essence."
Isn't it amazing that a company that is the greatest thing since Wonder bread for many, is a company from hell for many others? I've had plenty of the latter, but Newegg has been good to me. I'm sorry for your bad experiences, Doug. By the way, although I've had too many problems with Amazon, the resellers not Amazon.Com, it still happens to be my favorite online source "for everything." Due to the nature of people to "misbehave" when not face to face with others, online purchases are going to be more difficult than in-store purchases, forever. Such is life, huh?