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Did my hard drive just crash?

Farmer

Farmer

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Yeah, worked fine yesterday. This morning, at boot, I hear click of death. C'mon, you cant be serious, Samsung?

The drive is a 80GB Spinpoint SATA I drive, Samsung branded. What should I do? I really need this computer for me to work.

Another note, how the hell did this happen overnight? Of all the things that could've gone wrong, why one I cant fix? Could it be my power supply?
 
Well what happens exactly? On boot do you get a Windows BSOD or what? In the meantime, I would try plugging the hard drive in to another computer and see if it works there.
 
Xanis:

It clicks at boot, meaning, when first accessing the hdd for boot, it clicks. Windows does not start.
 
It posts, no, I get no messages; it just moves on to the next boot device, or states there are no boot devices. It can't read the drive, the drive keeps on clicking. It's gotta be a mechanical problem.

I ran it on my other (this) computer, and same thing, can't pick it up.

I think I will RMA it, as it has only been about a few weeks, but here is something I;m more concerned about:

THe other drive that was connected to that system was a Hitachi drive, 160GB. Now, this drive does not click or give any noticeable outward appearance of physical failure. I ran Hitachi's fitness test on it, and it looked OK. However, when I hooked it up to my other (this) system, BIOS picks it up, but Windows cannot. Under Disk Management, it simply states that the drive is "Foreign." Now, this is slightly more important, because I do have data on that drive that is somewhat valuable.

Any help?

PS: Also, any insight into just what the hell happened is also good. Some sort of overnight mini-EMP? This is incredibly frustrating.
 
Good thing!:

My 160GB Hitachi drive didn't crash; all files are OK, all 100 some GB of them. I simply "Imported" the foreign drives; I've never had to do that before with two NTFS partitioned drives.

So I just lose my 80GB boot drive. What do I lose? Well, the few homework assignments I started to save on it (so thats about 5 hours of work down the drain), my wonderful FS2004 screenshots (all 10 or so of them, but I can take'em again), my Windows install (but thats easy), registry changes and keys for my FS add-ons, but we'll see if they work without them, misc. essential freeware utilities, but that's all redownloadable. So, hassle will come from the RMA process and the lost HW and FS misc. items.

The wonderful thing is, I kept all my larger downloads and my games, particularly, FS, which had about 50GB worth of misc. add-ons that woudlve taken a while to reinstall. But who knows, I might have had to reinstall them anyhow.
 
Try the freezer trick on your 80gb drive. My western digital was giving the click of death, wasn't even recognized by the BIOS half the time. I stuck in in the freezer for an hour, and put some frozen meat wrapped in foil on top of it and recovered all of the data.
 
stevty2889:

I don't think I'm gonna bother. It might hurt my chances at successful RMA if Newegg gets a moisture-ridden HDD.
 
At this point I would suggest getting yourself a copy of Knoppix and recovering as much of the data as you can, then RMA the HDD to Newegg and get another.
 
Does anyone have any opinions on the source of this problem? The computer was shutdown the night before, however, the PSU and power cable were still connected, which is normally the way I leave my computer.

What can explain the overnight breakdown, three weeks from purchase? A lemon?
 
I do have an old IBM drive sitting around; its an ATA66 pre-DeathStar drive that I bought in 1999/2000 (its in the 22GXP series, and its 22GB). Its pretty loud, but otherwise a good performing drive when I used it.

Now, I havn't turned this computer on for about three years, but I'm gonna see if I can reformat it in NTFS and run it as a boot drive. I hope it works good, at least until the RMA comes through.
 
Originally posted by: The Linuxator
" put some frozen meat wrapped in foil on top of it and recovered all of the data. "

ROFL
Click to expand...

lol, I know it sounds funny, but it worked, should have seen the looks I was getting from my roomate and her friends when I stuck the frozen meat on the hard drive..
 
Well, the old computer works fine, which means the 6 year old hard drive is in good working order. I've started to back stuff up, and I hope to dban and NTFS format it tomorrow for XP installation. Hopefully, my other computer will be up and running by tomorrow, at the expense of my Win98SE install.

My P3 550 now doesn't have a hard drive. The machine runs surprisingly smoothly (though the 128MB of RAM really inhibits performance).

RMA going out tomorrow.
 
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