Is my 2yr old IBM 30GB 75GXP going, going, gone??

[PeeluckyDuckee]

The last boot was fine. Then a shut down and a reboot, into multiple different OSes resulted in a BSOD of "inaccessible_boot_device". Safe mode, last known good config, nothing seems to work. The drive is loud and squealing like a pig awhile ago, think it finally gave?

When it boots W2K, it can still get to the W2K Screen, but after that its BLAH!! freaks out on me.

I have some data that's worth recovering on there. Perhaps I should attach it to my bro's system and see if I can recover anything eh.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

I think she's dead 🙁

 

[ku]

most likely. run some diagnostics if possible. my guess is that it went bye bye

 

[AndyHui]

Please read the FAQ: IBM 75GXP Problems and how to RMA.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

thx for the linky. Seems that partition C has been corrupted. If boot.ini was in that parition, that may explain why other OSes are not booting as well?

 

[JMichna]

I just had to redo my daughter's GXP75/30gb due to "cricket noises... file corruptions... etc., same as your problem. In my case, I used IBM's Drive Fitness Test utility, HOWEVER, if it finds errors and recommends running the thorough test, it will remove all your data. It will mark the damaged portions, and you will be able to use the HD... until you buy it's replacement and RMA that loser back to IBM.

Regarding the data you want to try and recover, you can try this approach... since only portions of the drive are damaged. Pull the drive, and plug it in as a "slave" (not the boot drive) in another system. You may get lucky and be able to access the files you want to pull and save... assuming they are poutside the damaged areas. You can thern run that DFT utility, repartition with fdisk, format, and re-use the HD.
:disgust: jmichna :disgust:

 

[WarCon]

This is an old trick, and it doesn't always work, but you could try putting the drive in the freezer until it gets good and cold (condensation could be a problem so make sure the pcb is up when you turn it on). And try booting with it, under the simple premise of getting data off of it as fast as possible. I have had it work several times and not work just as many. Its one of those things you do if you absolutely need to get your data off of it. If it works, it will usually work quite a few times so don't dispair if you only get part of your data again before it fails again.

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If the drive is bouncing heads then its probably too late.