IBM GXP 40.x hd making noise...help

[quadcells]

A friend asked me to move his secondary hd from his old computer(Dell Workstaion Dual PIII 600MHz) to his new one(P4 3.0 GHz 800MHz on a Asus P4P800 Deluxe mb).
As soon as booted up the pc the drive started making clicking noise. Istart to copy over his data when after about 3.1gig of data transfered I got the BSOD(WinXP Pro).
Should I try the frezzer trick.

 

[Coolone]

Funny you shold ask

You could try the freezer trick, it didnt work for my IBM drive, but you dont have much to lose now, do you?

get a replacement ASAP, that drive is going bye-bye

 

[ssanches]

Funny that your IBM HDD is making the clicking noise...mine is very very quiet

, of course it's dead and buried now

 

[cmdrdredd]

75gxp was bad...60gxp is rock solid for my experience 120gxp is as good as maxtor IMO

 

[quadcells]

So far I did this-
I put the drive in the frezzer for 5 hours, then connected it to the computers secondary IDE port.
Computer booted and the drive was not clicking.
I got 3/4 of the drive copied then the clicking started again.
Then it would stop and start again.
2.5 hours later I got 98% copied but now the drive is just clicking a way.
SO back in the frezzer with you.
I'll try it again later.

 

[InlineFive]

Do a forum search, as you can see these go by the name of "DeathStar". They break down fast and if I were you I would back up my data regularly, based on the odd noises starting. Next time get a Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate or another solid brand.

-PorBleemo

 

[quadcells]

update,
Well the frezzer trick a little more...enough for me to get 9,234 pictures out of 9,288 and all his text files. Time for a new WD SE 120GIG HD.

 

[JackHawksmoor]

IBM's drives used to kick ass. They were always at the top of the benchmarks, the most reliable, and were pretty quiet. After I lost TWO 75gxp drives within a week (one in my Mac, one in the PC I built), for some reason I swore of IBM for good. (Come to think of it, those were the ONLY two hard drives I've EVER had problems with).

Didn't IBM even quit making drives, like they just sell rebadged Hitachi drives or something?

My brand of choice now is Seagate. They seem to be very reliable, and they're the quietest drives I've ever heard (they seem to run 10db quieter than other brands, which is a LOT).

 

[Ionizer86]

Odd, how come everyone thinks all other drives are so reliable? I had a WD die in 3 yrs 6 months and a Maxtor die in 2 yrs 8 months...I mean, they still died within 4 years.

Then again...a bud has a 60GXP that went kaput in like a year and a half.