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Is my 60gxp dying

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MajinWade

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Ibm, 40GB.

Here's what happens: It works fine until I leave it alone for awile. Then it makes the sound of a hard drive going to sleep/waking up(I have it set to never), but then it continuously makes the sound. So it's kind of like whirr-click-whirr-click.... It's not making any un-harddrive like sounds, like clunk, which an old Bigfoot of mine did, but it's definatly wrong. Oh, also the computer freezes up as well.

So I restart and it continuously does the same noise, although there is a pause between power on and bios start. Eventually, the bios will not find it and continue. But it still goes whirr-click-whirr-click.... After a few tries of power down, power on, it works again.

So I'm wondering if this could be anything else other than a hard drive failure. Maybe I should've knocked on wood last night after my friend was telling me how good ibm was. I wish I was up to date on backing up. Good thing I got in on the deal with the 32x cendyne. 🙁
 
Sounds like a power problem to me, but it might be a defective drive. Whats your system specs(including power supply)?
 
System
Everything is reset to regular speeds.
PS: Antec pp253x 250W. It's been going great for over 1.5 years.
About 2 weeks ago, I upgraded to the 900Mhz from a 650Mhz. I replaced a Mitsumi 4x writer with the verbatim/cendyne/Lite-on about the same time.
 
Beat it with a rock.

After you backup your important stuff and fill out the IBM RMA form.

It's dead, Jim.

--Mc
 
my brother has the IBM 40GB 60GXP model and it died. He said that IBM has a problem with the 60GXP model, I have the IBM 40GB 120GXP model and have no problem what so ever. If your drive is still under warranty you might want to give IBM a call and see if they'll give you the 120GXP model.
 
Call the doctor!, Actually tap the drive as it;s trying to spin up, then back up your data and RMA the sucker. IBM's suck.
 
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