OT: HDD Failure?

[Dave]

OK guys, this is obviously an off topic post, but I'm posting anyways ;) I'm sure with the community intelligence at least one of you guys will have had some experiance with this or at least know some vague signs.

I'm begining to worry that HDD failure is imminent, Seemingly randomly my HDD isn't detected at boot, I open up the case, check everything's conencted, it always is. I turn it on again, and volia, I can boot again, I dont get any weird noises or suchlike, am I just worrying or do you guys think my HDD is about to kick the bucket?, thanks..
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[Dave]

noo.... :cry: :cry: :cry: ...Backups staring..... The annoying thing is, the HDD is only 10months old :(
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[Dave]

5 months!!!! - poor you... I wont be buying a Segate hard drive anymore, i'll go with IBM i think...
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[vbgunz]

Hey no kidding, My Notebooks HDD failed after only 6 months. It was one of my worst PC events ever, luckily I was still in warranty... I hope it isnt but if you really feel it is get a system checker, analyzer for your hardware to scan for early problems.

I hope its no HDD problem and if it is I hope you're still in warranty :)

You might wish to check out S.M.A.R.T products... Their good at checking HDD health. Check out some at http://www.webattack.com/Shareware/system/swdisktools.shtml

I looked into the freeware section but couldn't find some good ones... Perhaps I overlooked it... Good luck :)
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[Dave]

Thanks, I've tested it with a similar product which is showing all as OK, i'm starting to think I may have damaged an IDE channel :(
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[Dave]

Well, it died yesterday :( , i wont be around for a while until i get a replacement sorted.... :(
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[Dave]

I'm on a spare machie i managaed to rig up (500mb hdd i had spare), i just called the company and they're willing to replace th drive, YAY!, just gotta wait till saturday when i'll pop by their warehouse.. :) :)
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[Dave]

I got my new HDD today....god my box is running great....just installed Win2003 RC2 which M$ posted me (I'm an official beta tester), aint going near IIS6.0 though....Re-installing Abyss now! ;)
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[feamsr00]

Good for you.
Did you ever find out what happened to the drive? Youd be suprised what could happen to a hard drive. For example:
I once had upgraded from a 1gb drive to a IBM 60gb drive (and promptly filled it with 30gb of stuff :lol:). One day I come home and it would'nt boot. I take the cover off and heard *click whiiirrrr click click click* (I found out it was called the click of death :cry: ). After much screaming and a few calls to my friends I took it out and went back to a 1 gb. After the relization that it was never going to be fixed without lots of money, a friend improvised a clean "area" and took it apart and found out the bottom platter (hard drives have multiple metal surfaces called platters) had shattered! Completely, it was in pieces. To this day, I still have no idea what caused it.

[vbgunz]

Cool Dave, hopefully we'll see you on the boards more often... Good to have you around bro :)
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[Dave]

feamsr00, nope, I have no-idea what's happening to it, it was 10months old so I just returned it to the store under the warranty ;) they just placed a new 60GB drive in my hands :)

vbgunz, thanks... ;)
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[WhiteDevil]

i had my 30GB HDD blow after 4 months... the good thing about that was it was still under warantee :)

and by a stroke of luck Hewlitt Packard didnt produce my original HDD anymore so i got an upgrade to 40GB, that should cost £215 + labour free of charge...

i was a happy bunny...
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[goose]

hey hows this for one in a million chance 2 hard drives die at once...first died after 10 months....the other after 2 days of replacing the first...hehe

good thing is they are both under warranty...lucky for me (the first was a seagate 20gigs the other an ibm 30gig.....) the first had a read error could only read the first 20 megs of the drive (grind..grind).....and the second had a seek error(would detect on boot and work one day and the next day wouldnt detect at all....these drives stink :arrow: 8O


i now have a 30gig drive that cross fingers will last a life time....(still ibm ponder ponder :roll: :D

[Dave]

hehee....I'm just glad I make regular backups ;)
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[goose]

backup is the key hehe :lol:

[Bluedog]

and also never buying ibm drives, and perhaps seagate too, is also the key :D

maxtor all the way!

[Dave]

hehe...I'm considering getting a Maxtor 140gb drive about May ish, depends on the price..
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[Bluedog]

I hear they are very reliable drives, I know lots of people who use them, including modders/overclockers, and they only usually buy the best stuff :)

[Dave]

cool...I'll look into one, but I'm kinda tied, a HDD or a decent GFX card....ooh the choices..... ;)
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[goose]

i have had seagates for years and no probs until now!

asfor ibm the first i ever had died. ibm is very suspect ...will let this one ride..if it dies then i shall try maxtor.....who knows everything dies!
its justa matter of time! :wink: :roll:

[goose]

try msi's range of nvidia cards....very good prices....and decent.

if not try leadtek's range and price very CENSORED indeed!

im looking at a 64meg card with all the bells and whistles for my nforce1 msi.

l8r the goose is laying eggs for easter!