IBM Deskstar 60GXP 60 GB HD

[Butu]

I finally broke down and strayed from a long history of purchasing Western Digital HDs. It is because of this that I have gotten myself into hot water with this IBM Deskstar 60GB HD. I bought it to replace a 10GB Western Digital HD and since the installation of the new drive my BIOS gives me this message (upon boot up) 'SMART failure .. crash imminent'. I have this drive sitting on the primary ide slot of an Asus P3V4X (Apollo Pro 133A chipset) with the factory default settings (16 head - master).

Does this mean the drive is borked? I managed to detect it, fdisk it and format it without any hitches (mind you, the integrity check in fdisk kept going back to 0% at times). Furthermore, I managed to get Windows 98 installed and ran scandisk. No reports of problems.

Has anyone else had a similar problem with this or any other drive? Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Evadman]

Wow, never got a S.M.A.R.T. Failure before. The reason that Scandisk kept starting over is because something accesed the drive. Hit Alt-Tab-Delete, and stop everything but Explorer and Ssytray. Then run a Through check. Warning: it will take a long time to run.
run it over nite.

 

[Butu]

=) My apologies. It wasn't Scandisk starting over. It was fdisk returning to 0% complete on integrity tests.. I have no clue as to what could be causing this. And, to be clearer still, it isn't the BIOS that's reporting this but the HD itself :/

 

[ukDave]

wierd. contact the place where u purchased it, and see what they have to say. Also, email IBM. It just doesnt sound right, and thus you should at least contact IBM.

 

[Mem]

Download IBM Drive Fitness Test (version 2.10) from here ,it does sound like your drive is faulty.

 

[Davegod75]

yeah run the fitness test. and if it fails fill out the IBM RMA thingy on their site. It works well, just gotta wait for the new drive