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Damn, hard drive died...

J

Jugernot

Diamond Member
Luckily I have all my documents and important files on another drive along with a week old tape backup. 😀

The only files I lost were some programs and movies. Which are replaceable for the most part. Ohhh, well.... I'll never buy another IBM drive. (This was a 60GXP replacement for a dead 75GXP). I'm pretty darn sure it's out of warranty too.

Anyway, just thought I'd post about my sucky lucky today.

Jugs

btw: The real kicker is that I had copied all the files on the drive just two days ago onto another drive in my system. But once the IBM drive was repartitioned, I copied the files back and deleteed them for the other drive. I'm trying a undelete utility right now, but I doubt it'll do any good.
 
*shiver*

My 75GXP that I bought over 2 years ago is still going strong, but it does make some funny noises occasionally....

I hope to God it doesen't die before I can get a new one.
 
It won't hurt to contact IBM about it.....with as bad a rep as they got with the GXP series dying on people, you might be able to get a replacement. (And sell it 🙂 )
 
The new IBM's Roxors my Boxors, but the old ones do suck. As a matter of fact the new 180gxp's were rated better than the Maxtors and WDigitals.
 
Originally posted by: Eli
*shiver*

My 75GXP that I bought over 2 years ago is still going strong, but it does make some funny noises occasionally....

I hope to God it doesen't die before I can get a new one.
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shouldnt that post be more like

My 75GXP that I bought over 2 years ago is still going strong, but it does make some funny noises occasionally....

I hope to God it doesen't die before I can get a ne

-Xionide
 
Originally posted by: Xionide
Originally posted by: Eli
*shiver*

My 75GXP that I bought over 2 years ago is still going strong, but it does make some funny noises occasionally....

I hope to God it doesen't die before I can get a new one.
Click to expand...

shouldnt that post be more like

My 75GXP that I bought over 2 years ago is still going strong, but it does make some funny noises occasionally....

I hope to God it doesen't die before I can get a ne

-Xionide
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Heh... 🙁
 
Originally posted by: RyanSengara
The new IBM's Roxors my Boxors, but the old ones do suck. As a matter of fact the new 180gxp's were rated better than the Maxtors and WDigitals.
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the 75GXP were top notch when they first came out too, it was only later when they started dying people knew to stay away.
 
Well, I just downloaded Easy Recovery Pro and it's actually recovering the files! 😀😀😀

Well, I'll have to wait and see when it's done.
 
Originally posted by: Eli
*shiver*

My 75GXP that I bought over 2 years ago is still going strong, but it does make some funny noises occasionally....

I hope to God it doesen't die before I can get a new one.
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i have a 2.5 year old 75gxp 30 gb. and every summer it fvcks up then becomes fine again! wtf... as if it's tormenting me. and ever since i got it, it makes this clicking noise.

anyway recently it's been getting a lot of read problems. and i get lots of "bad block" alerts in event viewer. i also lost the file table on my partition D. the files were salvaged but names, directories etc were lost. so i just got a maxtor 80gb yesterday. now i just gotta find if the ibm is still under warranty.
 
Kickass, this just keeps getting better! I just checked and apparently this drive is still under warranty until 12-10-03! 😀

I just created an RMA for it and will send in this week. Hopefully I'll get a bigger drive back and it won't be a refurb unit. When I sent my 45gig 75GXP they sent me this 60gig 60GXP as a replacement for free.
 
Originally posted by: Jugernot
Kickass, this just keeps getting better! I just checked and apparently this drive is still under warranty until 12-10-03! 😀

I just created an RMA for it and will send in this week. Hopefully I'll get a bigger drive back and it won't be a refurb unit. When I sent my 45gig 75GXP they sent me this 60gig 60GXP as a replacement for free.
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🙂
 
Damn, Easy Recovery Professional is a life saver... it's already recovered 11,952 files out of 19,548 (Around 22 of 38 gigs). It's still only like 70% done. 🙂

I'd recommend you guys picking it up for these types of situations.
 
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