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Another 60GB 60GXP failure... No recovery possible :(

CZroe

CZroe

Lifer
I've been getting rather anoyed by all the 60GXP failure threads: "As if we don't know about its problems and really need to know about yet another failure" I thought. Well, I don't practice what I preach so now it's my turn to shine (PITY ME!) 😀

I thought it was just my motherboard acting up a month or so ago when I would randomly get "Boot Failure" messages (I should have known better, it's an Intel board), but the symptoms eventually went away. Just to be safe, I borrowed my friend's unused 60GB Western Digital HDD and Ghosted my 60GXP's image to it. I held off returning it until he was freaking out about me having it so long, so I had to go ahead and trust that the problems just "went away" (As they seemingly did). A month or two later (Today), I told him he could go ahead and delete everything. He did. I was browsing IGN & making a post here on Anandtech after installing Quicktime (To view some IGN content, dunno why my bro uninstalled it). I clicked on the link to start playing a vid and switched back to Anandtech while it buffered. It played and I switched back. I clicked on the next vid and it began buffering. I then tried to play a Chemical Bros. MP3 while I wated for Anandtech to refresh, but Media Player never loaded (My bro also uninstalled WinAMP, don't ask me why). I switched back to IGN to see if Quicktime was doing something screwy that could cause it and it appeared to be (It was still downloading, but I could hear vigorous HDD activity and I couldn't move the mouse pointer for a few seconds when dragging the slider). I let the vid finish and tsure enough WMP launched right after it started playing. But then it froze. I managed to kill the processes but the HDD activity continued. Suddenly I realized I was only able to move the mouse and use the keyboard for about 5 seconds every 30 seconds. I couldn't get it turned off and had to cut the power. A corrupted file message appeared when I tried to reboot and so I knew it was lost. I ran IBM's awesome diag utilities but when it tried to fix sectors it would crash and return to the A:\ prompt (With the program's graphics still all over the screen). I tried to access as a secondary drive but it says the drive is not formatted (After locking for an eternity). I let WinXPs scandisk run and it says about a million "File record segements" are unreadable. I'm fux0red 🙁
 
Serves you right for not selling it,you knew they were problems with those drives & you ketp it.

What car are you driving? A Pinto
 


<< Just to be safe, I borrowed my friend's unused 60GB Western Digital HDD and Ghosted my 60GXP's image to it. >>



You should have bough the HD from him right then & there.

 
Are you overclocking by chance? Seems strange that the PC-DOS based DFT program crashes during operation...sounds like there are other issues with your system... I have used the DFT many times and it either fixes the drive via a low level format, or it tells you the drive is dead and gives you an RMA number. I've never heard of it crashing, and it's run off a floppy so your HD would have no affect on the program itself.
 
Insane3D: Does it on every system I try it on with this drive. Also, mine's a stock P4 system with retail Intel branded everything (So no overclocking). Even certified chassis & PSU... Shouldn't be a problem.

That flowchart is so damn funny! I'm a poor bastard...
 
Have you tried downloading the DFT program again and making a new boot disk...maybe something got corrupted the first time? I've used the program a lot and I've never seen it crash before...
 
Same here, I'm a big fan of it. I'm sure it's crashing. It obviously can't fix the 60GXP problems, or else it wouldn't be such a big problem would it 🙂 I have been surprised by what it's been able to fix entirely, but this doesn't surprise me...
IBM and Western Digital's diag utilities make them the only brands I will ever buy, regardless of reliability (If you don't know your drive is bad, how can you say it has no problems and tha IBM/WD do have them? Screw Toshiba, Seagate, Maxtor, etc).
 
OMG people please stop posting this stuff. Every week (closer to everyday) for months now there's been a new thread about someone's IBM xxGXP dying. How many times do you need to read that these drives have known issues and that if you're hearing noise or your drive has died you should RMA it, sell the drive they send you, and buy another drive by another manufacturer.

Please please please please please stop the IBM xxGXP threads, if you think having these threads everyday are saving users from their own doom or something then please dicuss with the mods having a GXP Failure thread anchored at the top of the thread list (similar to the FAQ Index).

There's even a FAQ on the topic so that you don't have to keep posting and asking questions about this topic over and over and over again. The FAQ is: "What's up with the IBM75GXP problems? How do I RMA if my drive is dead?" (When in doubt RTFF)

Thorin

PS >'Scuse my rant but this is crazy.
 
Do you have the click of death? If so, there is a very controversial and risky trick to get your harddrive working again.

But first, let me say, that a possible reason for your 60GXP failing is no cooling on the controller chip. It pretty much *needs* cooling! With cooling on the controller chip, the IBM 75GXP is almost as reliable as the maxtor and seagate drives. I've been cooling my controller chip with a harddrive fan and my 75GXP has been playin it loud (old nintendo joke) for nearly 1 year! Infact, I think the warranty expired a few days ago..

Now, the controversial fix is to replace the PCB your current drives PCB with the PCB of a working 60GXP . This will, possibly (in the event of click of death failure) revive the drive.
 
Didn't get a click, but I did hear a repeated patern of seeking/access (Read read read read...Seeeeek...Read read read read...Seeeeek...etc).

thorin: Sounds like you took my comment and ran with it 🙂 Besides, this isn't the tech support forum...
 
Thorin: There is no thread titled "What's up with the IBM75GXP problems? How do I RMA if my drive is dead?"
I did a search and there is no thread containing "IBM" "RMA" & "Drive" in the same title. Omit "Drive" and the only result has no info on RMAing the drive.

What number do I call? Thnx ppl!
 
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