Can anyone confirm this for me, possibly corrupt hardrive

[alee25]

anyways i was doing some work when suddently my hard drive start making this wierd buzzing noise in a series of buzzez and then a stop, as if it couldn't load data. so then, all my programs started crashing (while the hardrive is still making wierd noises) and i decide to turn off my computer. I then turn it back on 1 min later and it cant get it to load windows xp and the hardrive is again making noises. So i decided to try again and same thing happens. I then turn the computer off for about 10 mins and go back and then it starts working, but now im thinking that possibly my hardrive is corrupted or soemthing, and during when it starts up (before loading win xp), when it says detecting ide drives, it now labels my harddrive as a number (possibly serial number? i think mine is simliar to soemthing like 34390-ERR34), which is my question. Im not sure if it did this before, i thought it labled it as its name: IBM 60GXP 60gig, and am wondering if anyone who has a IBM 60GXP drive could verify if in fact DOS labels the hardrive as a serial number and not as a name

another thing that concerns me is that i tried to a scan on the hardrive (the one that removes bad sectors and you have to reboot) and however after it was trying to do it, i got a message that said, windows has shut down to prevent damage to your system.

I heard the 60GXP have had problems before, coudl this be the similar problem?

 

[Night201]

Sounds like the drive is going. Sometime a drive makes some noise as it readjusts to the thermal temperatures inside. Is it clicking at all or just humming? If programs started crashing and if it didn't load on restart then something is definitely wrong with the drive. Do you have another drive you can use a master and use the IBM drive as a slave? If so, I'd do that immediately and start copying any important files you may have on there to the other drive before you can't use the drive at all. How old is the drive?

As for the BIOS showing your drive as a serial number: if it didn't do that before, then I would expect it to be the cause of 1 of 2 problems:

1. The cable is not on right or is loose. That has happened to me.
2. Most likely though it is caused by a failing drive. Probably the controller chip could be causing that.

 

[mee987]

go to ibm's website and download their hdd diagnostic utility, see what it has to say and let us know

 

[alee25]

i did both the quick and advanced test and i got 0x00

that means its normal? or whats going on?

can i still get IBM to RMA this for me even if it shows up with a normal code?

 

[PowerYoga]

that happened to my hardrive a couple of months ago.
later on that drive went bye bye....
it sounds like your hardrive might go soon. I suggest you back up your important data.... fast. After you back up your data, try doing a virus scan. I don't know if viruses do that to a hardisk but it can't hurt to scan. Do it after you back up your data, in case the scanning overloads the HD (maybe temperature wise)

 

[mee987]

After backing up the data you can try downloading SiSoft Sandra and telling it to run the HDD benchmark for an hour or 2, if the drive is about to die that will probably push it over the edge. Chances are IBM won't let you RMA it if its still working.