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Hard Drive and Zip Drive Problems

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guardfish

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Recently when I started up my system, the 7 Gig IBM hard drive refused to boot and kept making sounds like there was an electrical interruption (beep, beep, beep, ...). Finally booted the system with a Win 98 start up disk. The internal zip disk is "not accessible." The drive spins, makes clicking sounds and then I get the previous message with a 100 Meg disk in it. Some guys I talked to say the drive is going bad since I had heard bearing noises which have since gone away; I have also heard it may be a controller on the mother board which I could replace.

Questions:

1. Can any of you verify a probable solution?
2. Since I have a 4 year old Dell, would this be an ATA-33 controller?

Thanks,

Ed
 
There is a well known problem about the zip drives, called the 'click of death', they used to offer free replacements if you had the symtoms and recently had a friend who called tech-support, said 'click of death' and got his drive replaced, no other questions asked.
 
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