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My Deskstar 75GXP 45GB went bad

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vtqanh

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It started to make some strange noise this morning, ran chkdsk and Windows found 1-2 bad clusters. Is it possible to get a replacement from IBM?
 
There a FAQ on this, just take a look around the anantech FAQ section, and you'll find all the info you need. BTW, that replacement you want...its probably going to die again in under 3 months. Oh well 🙁
 
I have GXP 60, 40 GB. My 2 present roommates and 2 previous roomates has 60 GXP, 40 gb ones. Never ever was a hint of problem. May be we are just lucky.
 
I have four IBM DeskStar drives in the house..

1. 20GB 75GXP
1. 40GB 60GXP
1. 40GB 120GXP
1. 80GB 120GXP

All of them work perfectly. We had one drive die a long time ago, but it was more related to the fact that my brother dropped it. IBM cross shipped a new drive to us overnight.

-Drew
 


<< Should change the models name from Deskstar to Deathstar. >>



ROFL 😀 ...Funny stuff. I think folks should make one big thread and keep it stickied up instead of having these zillions of IBM desktar drive threads.
 
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Welcome to the club dude. There is a class action lawsuit filed against IBM. Nine victims have joined thus far. Alas, I do not have a link, but I'm sure there's someone on these boards that can point you out to it.

I know there have been a whole lot more people than those 9 with the problem though. I see threads on the 75gxp on AT forums, Tom's Hardware, and many other places. Luckily I've never owned one, and from all the horrible things I've heard, I never will own an IBM drive. Maxtor has been good to me for five long years. I am thinking of jumpin the Maxtor ship for one of those new WD drives tho.
 
Welcome to the club dude. There is a class action lawsuit filed against IBM. Nine victims have joined thus far. Alas, I do not have a link, but I'm sure there's someone on these boards that can point you out to it.

I'm part of the class action against the 75gxp, and there's more than "nine victims."

Here's the link.
 


<< I'm part of the class action against the 75gxp, and there's more than "nine victims." >>



Do you chase ambulances too?
 
Do you chase ambulances too?


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No, I'm just one of the "victims" who wants IBM to reimburse all of us who purchased the 75gxp's.
 
im not going to sue, i just RMAed mt 75gxp because it started making that cruncking, scratching noise and locks the system sometimes. After about 2 hours of running chkdsk found bad sectors. Hopefully IBM sends me something good and does not take long to do it.
 
Well just like i expected another IBM HD has failed. I predict more IBM HDS will fail very soon and we will be seeing more post on failing IBM HDs. That is like a 100% given anyway.
 
I just wish I could figure out how to get the IBM DFT to run under XP. I made the bootable disk but when i restart the system it says invalid system dick. I also tried a win98 boot disk and then from the prompt thried to run DFT but it gives me some initialization error. anyone got a idea?

Is it because my HD is formated NTFS?
 
I've been using this drive from the last two years without any problem........love my drive........love IBM .......and love their great utilities...........just because you've got a bad one does not mean that IBM desktar needs to be replaced by a death star........

Raj
 
when i boot the system and it tries to boot from the ibm disk it syays invalid system disk error, please remove and press any key
 
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