mmm click of death

[ElFenix]

i was attempting to run two instances of my favorite game when something catastrophic happened. tried to restart the computer because thats what anyone in their right mind would to after a bunch of programs crash, right? well the hard drive is getting absolutely hammered. so after a few minutes of attempting to shut down i hear a click. like the sound of the head hitting something inside the drive. i get it turned off, restart, oh it can't find windows. so i attempt a repair of the installation... which can't be found. so i try reinstalling windows. it copies the files and clicks several times doing so, but gets through that just fine. computer restarts... blue screen before hitting the desktop! ctrl-alt-del and i get:
Disk I/O error: Status = 00001020
Disk I/O error: Status = 00001020

Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
Please re-install a copy of the above file.


swweeeet!

looks like its time to call maxtor...

the only reason i'm not extremely uberpissed about this is that the install is only a couple weeks old and so only the really new things aren't sitting on the old disk.

i wonder if the freezer trick would work?

 

[yoda291]

First...Is your favorite game solitaire? How do you run 2 instances of a game?

Second..IIRC, the freezer trick may work temporarily...but more likely than not, it'd be better just to grab a new drive.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: yoda291
First...Is your favorite game solitaire? How do you run 2 instances of a game?

Second..IIRC, the freezer trick may work temporarily...but more likely than not, it'd be better just to grab a new drive.

well, i would like to have the email i got in the last three weeks, so if i can get that, it would be nice.

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: yoda291
First...Is your favorite game solitaire? How do you run 2 instances of a game?

Second..IIRC, the freezer trick may work temporarily...but more likely than not, it'd be better just to grab a new drive.

well, i would like to have the email i got in the last three weeks, so if i can get that, it would be nice.

IIRC, the freezer trick works because the cold shrinks the mechanics in the drive a bit, giving you a little more leeway in terms of the moving parts. So, I imagine it'd work if you slaved it to a working system to get your mail. As soon as it thawed, tho, the mechanical problem you had would return.

 

[rgwalt]

Originally posted by: yoda291

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: yoda291
First...Is your favorite game solitaire? How do you run 2 instances of a game?

Second..IIRC, the freezer trick may work temporarily...but more likely than not, it'd be better just to grab a new drive.

well, i would like to have the email i got in the last three weeks, so if i can get that, it would be nice.

IIRC, the freezer trick works because the cold shrinks the mechanics in the drive a bit, giving you a little more leeway in terms of the moving parts. So, I imagine it'd work if you slaved it to a working system to get your mail. As soon as it thawed, tho, the mechanical problem you had would return.

Hmmm... Liquid nitrogen?

GL with the drive buddy.

Ryan

 

[ElFenix]

now heres the question... when i RMA the drive should i sent it to maxtor in a maxtor box or a seagate box?


o there is advanced rma... i should do that huh?

 

[GhettoFob]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
now heres the question... when i RMA the drive should i sent it to maxtor in a maxtor box or a seagate box?


o there is advanced rma... i should do that huh?

seagate

 

[Zugzwang152]

i'm also in the midst of a Maxtor RMA, and I chose the advanced option simply because I don't have another hard drive available hehe..all you do is send your drive back to them in the packaging the replacement comes in.

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Hmm, I need to RMA a drive.


Freezer trick, eh? Hmm, worth a shot since there are some family pictures on there that I never made backups of. Any other possibilities for recovery? There's a click in the drive and it just can't get up to speed in spinning.

 

[rh71]

Hmm... a click of death thread with no mention of IBM ?! Noooooo way!

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: rh71
Hmm... a click of death thread with no mention of IBM ?! Noooooo way!

Or IOmega to boot.

- M4H

 

[Spikey217]

Just my luck, one of my Maxtors died today. Had some fairly important documents in there as well.

This sucks. Gotta check out hot deals now...

 

[wyvrn]

People think I'm crazy for backing up every week. Where here is a prime example of why. I feel your pain dude, I've been there and it sucks. I had to reconstruct a large portion of my accounting data for my company last year because of hdd failure. Doh!

 

[Keego]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: rh71
Hmm... a click of death thread with no mention of IBM ?! Noooooo way!

Or IOmega to boot.

- M4H

That's what I first thought of. Good ol' zip drives.

 

[gwlam12]

my maxtor was originally a 40gb. sent in rma, back comes 60. need to rma that, back comes 60. need to rma that, back comes 80

i dont blame maxtor for my hard drive problem. it was after the 80gb came back that i realized my harddrive had been running mostly at 65C. Now that i fixed hte problem, it's running around 50C.

 

[Spac3d]

Shouldn't this be in general hardware?

 

[prodigy]

Oops, I read that as "dick of death"

Guess I'm tired.

 

[morkinva]

I have a maxtor which is operating fine, but lately I've been hearing a vibrational noise on occasion. Its definitely not a click.

The powermax software says the drive is okay, and the warranty expires in June. Should I be concerned?

 

[Eli]

I have an IBM 75GXP that's been ticking away for 2 years now..... Seems that I have one of the few that didn't go tits up after a couple of months.

*knock on wood*

 

[RobCur]

I took mine apart, voiding RMA I should have known better!

Originally posted by: gwlam12
my maxtor was originally a 40gb. sent in rma, back comes 60. need to rma that, back comes 60. need to rma that, back comes 80

i dont blame maxtor for my hard drive problem. it was after the 80gb came back that i realized my harddrive had been running mostly at 65C. Now that i fixed hte problem, it's running around 50C.

 

[ElFenix]

so i went to fry's and grabbed a JB drive... installed windows xp but i had my card reader plugged in so my hard drive is I:


heheh "i sleep in a drawer" gosh i love the simpsons