Solved Is my new hard drive a lemon?

I have a Dell xps m1730 that I recently bought a new HDD for. I got a WD scorpio black. I used Macrium reflect to image over the old drive. After some light use I noticed some problems with my system.

Services on my comp would fail, I'd get messages saying some file somewhere was corrupt or missing, and everytime I restarted my comp would want to do a chkdsk procedure. Also every so often the drive would lockup in the middle of normal vista usage and the HDD access light would be solid and the system unusable for a couple mins, or I'd have to just force a restart.

Did I get a bum drive? Missing drivers, bad image?

I've also tried a complete clear reinstall from the OS DVD with similar results. I made sure to install the drivers for the HDD at the beginning of the install from the resource disk from Dell.

I have windows vista ultimate 32 bit.

Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

When the computer wants to do a chkdsk, usually means hard drive problems
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Ran the Seagate Tools test and the drive passed all tests except the "Long Generic" which it would never finish, (would never get passed 5 - 15% complete).

Random processes are starting to fail again, pretty sure the drive is no good.

Does sound like Hard Drive problems. The constant chkdsk is a good clue.

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I've given up bothering with the drive, and I filled an RMA with WD, thanks for the advice.