Is my hard driv failing?

[Sarsos]

I have an IBM 60GPX or maybe it is a 60GXP. It is a 60 Gig drive new about 10 months ago. Recently it has managed to loop itself a couple of times when spinning up, so it sill spin up, spin down, then try again. At least once my operrating system has not worked after it did this and I had to repair it

Now by the sound of the drive working it now appears to be reading in spurts. It just gives off an odd sound about every second or so on most of my boot ups. A few times my system becomes so slow after boot up that I think I am running a 200 mhtz system instead of an athlon 1700.

All of this points me to believe that my drive is going bad, but I have run check disk on it multiple times and nothing has warned me about an imminent drive failure.

Am I going to be in need of a new drive soon? Thanks for any info

 

[amdskip]

IBM should have some downloadable software tools that can be used to diagnose your drive. Try something like that and turn on SMART in your bios, warns of a bad hard drive.

 

[Lithium381]

what programs did you use to check it with? scandisk is an okay program to use

are you sure everything is plugged in correctly, and how do you have your drives arranged in your IDE bus?

 

[Sarsos]

I used the standard utilities that come with Win 2k Pro. I am positive that everything is plugged in properly. I have the 60 gig IBM drive as master on my primary ide channel and a 40 gig IBM 40GPX as slave on the same channel.

By the way my 40 gig drive (slave) just gave me this error


D:/ is not accessible

Error preforming inpage opperation


I have as of yet not rebooted or touched anything so it might just be a temporary problem. Anyway, thanks.

 

[AnyMal]

Go to IBM here and download their diagnostic tools. Should help.

 

[spacelord]

fortunately I have not had a hard drive die on me.. but I know a couple people whos drives died... and they both started out by making little odd noises, which kept getting worse and worse over time until complete failure.

make sure you have anything important backed up!

 

[Sarsos]

OK, I think I figured it out. Shortly after my last post my primary IDE channel completely died on me. With some time spent on switching cables around I was able to figure out that it wasn't my primary hard drive that was giving me crap but my secondary. I think that somehow it went dead and every time I plug it into my primary IDE channel it took my primary with it. My mother board (ABIT KR7A) refused to see either drive on either channel when my slave drive was hooked up. But everything works fine with just the master hooked up. In fact, my machine is working even better, I was totaly amazed at how fast my machine booted (like 10 sec difference easily).

Does this sound a little wierd to anyone else? I was under the impression that if my secondary drive failed, or was even having problems it shouldn't affect my primary drive at all.

Anyway thanks for the help, it is time to get a new har drive and start ripping my 20 gigs of MP3's again. I can't wait to spend 100 hours or so ripping CD's again.

 

[lbmcleod]

I've had problems when if the secondary drive fails, then it will take the primary with it, primary on its own is fine. wierd but true.