*EDIT* Two reboots and it's back..**Of all the bad luck...my backup HD died as I was burning it's files to a CD!!

[MichaelD]

*EDIT*
I rebooted twice. On the second reboot, the Promise controller card saw it. You've never seen anyone burn a CD so fast in your life! This HD IS my backup drive. It's the drive I install all my apps from when I reformat. I run this backup drive b/c my main HD is a RAID0 array. I take no chances. Whew. All my pics (past 3 years of son's 6 years on this planet/2+ years with GF/trips, etc) were on this drive. I managed to get it all. 643 MB worth. I got lucky, and I know it. Thank you, God!

I would imagine this HD won't be around much longer, huh? It's still under warranty...it's only 14 months old, for cryin' out loud!
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Can U belive this sh!t? :| I'm getting ready to totally redo my rig on Monday when my new mobo/CPU comes in. So, I figured it would be a good idea to FINALLY get around to backing up my backup HD to CD. Halfway thru the process (click and dragging files/folders) the HD starts clicking. My system hard locked.

On reboot, the Promise TX2 Ultra that the HD is plugged into says (during it's bios bootup) "No drives detected."

W2K boots normally. I go into Windows Explorer and sure enough, no HD. Is it really gone? I highly doubt it got physically disconnected as the case hasn't moved in about 3 months and it was working fine, oh, 20 damn minutes ago! Natch, I'll have to open up the case...but not tonight. My son is here and not asleep yet...now would be a bad time to climb under my desk and start disconnecting the maze of wires back there. Argh.

Any suggestions?

ps
It's a Maxtor DM+ 45GB drive. About a year old!

 

[MichaelD]

Hmm. I go into the logs and under System, I see one that says "Ultra." I double click and I see:

"The device, \Device\Scsi\Ultra1, did not respond within the timeout period." Possibly my Promise controller card is dead? I don't think so, as it goes thru it's bios self check fine at reboot. Argh.

 

[Paulson]

Well that clicking noise almost absolutely means the hard drive decided it wanted to be really mean to ya

Sucky man...

Next time, if you have another hard drive to back up to, I'd do that... that's how I've been running things on my rig... mirror all important data back and forth between drives...

 

[bacillus]

I feel for you man!

 

[Daovonnaex]

This sounds like a classic example of Murphy's Law.