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Is My Hard Drive Dead?

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funkmonky

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Hello, yesterday night, my hard drive started making some noizes and my computer eventually froze. It was a turny, swishy sound, intervals of four every other second or so. The drive is an IBM 60gxp Deskstar 60gb. I remember when I bought it (about half a year ago) someone was telling me IBM drives had problems, at least the 75(gxp or gb, I forgot). He didn't know about the 60s so I went ahead with it. Now, I can't even get past the loading WinXP screen, once the sound kicks in it just stays at that screen. I went to the bios and the drive is still detected. Is it dead or is there some way I can recover my files? Safemode didn't work either. Everything is fine until the sound kicks in, and that's before Windows. Also, anyone know if Fry's or IBM have a warranty on the OEM drives?

Here are my specs:
Athlon 1800+
Soyo Dragon Plus
512 Generic Ram
IBM 60 gig
Ati Radeon LE 128

Thanks🙁
 
Originally posted by: funkmonky
Hello, yesterday night, my hard drive started making some noizes and my computer eventually froze. It was a turny, swishy sound, intervals of four every other second or so. The drive is an IBM 60gxp Deskstar 60gb. I remember when I bought it (about half a year ago) someone was telling me IBM drives had problems, at least the 75(gxp or gb, I forgot). He didn't know about the 60s so I went ahead with it. Now, I can't even get past the loading WinXP screen, once the sound kicks in it just stays at that screen. I went to the bios and the drive is still detected. Is it dead or is there some way I can recover my files? Safemode didn't work either. Everything is fine until the sound kicks in, and that's before Windows. Also, anyone know if Fry's or IBM have a warranty on the OEM drives?

Here are my specs:
Athlon 1800+
Soyo Dragon Plus
512 Generic Ram
IBM 60 gig
Ati Radeon LE 128

Thanks🙁
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I have the same drive no problems here but I do believe the chance of something bad happening to the IBM drives is higher than most other 60g drives.. If you have another computer connect the drive to a spare ide chain to recover files. Call up IBM tech support and see if it is still under warranty. Hope that helps


 
If your PC can still detect the drive, install it into another system as a slave and try to recover your files. If you are unable to recover that way, RMA the thing. If your hard drive makes noises like clicking and grinding. It is more that likely bad. Ape Out.

 
that's the "seek of death" sound. like they said, u should be able to still recover your information if bios can detect it, but it is shortly going to die completely. take it completely out of your system until you can back it up, and then rma it.
 
Also, anyone know if Fry's or IBM have a warranty on the OEM drives?
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Never buy anything from frys. A large majority of the things they sell are either refurbushed or returned products. A few months ago, they were selling 256 DDR 2100 for dirt cheep, but only with a 7 day warrenty, with an extremely high defective rate. Frys does things like that all of the time, and i've heard it come from MANY different people. As for IBM, I believe the swiched to 1 year warrenty, although i'm not sure whether or not that effects drives purchased before the switch.
 
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