MY WD Raptor 74GB 10K HD not working anymore

[DEredita]

MY WD Raptor was working fine since late February, and then today I woke up and boot my PC and it gets up to Checking DMI then....

"Boot Disk failures, insert system disk & press enter...."

I tried putting the Win XP install disk in and using then WD SATA driver disk and repair, but it tells me that the hard disk can not be found.

Help!!!! How do I fix this?

- Mike

 

[MobiusPizza]

Does the drive spin up at all? Any weird noise?
Try running it in a different SATA port

 

[DEredita]

I hear it spin up, but nothing

 

[DEredita]

I checked all the wires, they seem very solid in there

 

[DEredita]

ok I tried another SATA port and it does the same thing - it makes a loading hard drive sound then "Boot Disk failure, insert system disk & press enter...." then the hard drive makes a tick tick tick tick sound and it stops.

 

[DEredita]

I used the WD diognostic utility and it gave me a 0120 error, drive not found.

 

[Slammy1]

Sounds like an RMA scenario to me.

 

[eXx08]

You can not boot a system using floopy. Take the floppy out boot it then put it back in.

 

[MobiusPizza]

luckily Raptors have 5 year warranty
Or you can try the freezer trick lol

 

[DEredita]

freezer trick - lol, what's that???? lol

 

[MobiusPizza]

search freezer trick in this forum, you'll see

 

[fstime]

Raptors have an excellent warrenty,

I'd just RMA it, I never tried the freezer trick but it would probably void your warrenty.

If your really desperate to get back your data, try it.

If it doesnt matter much to you, just rma it.

 

[MobiusPizza]

Originally posted by: BouZouki
I never tried the freezer trick but it would probably void your warrenty.

I doubt it
The driver's non-operating temperature is stated as -40° C to 65° C

No way they are gonna say "Hey you put your drive inside a freezer"

 

[bluestrobe]

Originally posted by: AnnihilatorX

Originally posted by: BouZouki
I never tried the freezer trick but it would probably void your warrenty.

I doubt it
The driver's non-operating temperature is stated as -40° C to 65° C

No way they are gonna say "Hey you put your drive inside a freezer"

Moister in the hard drive probably would void any type of warranty. Going from freezing temperatures to hot temps will get your some nice condensation going.

 

[Greenman]

Originally posted by: bluestrobe

Originally posted by: AnnihilatorX

Originally posted by: BouZouki
I never tried the freezer trick but it would probably void your warrenty.

I doubt it
The driver's non-operating temperature is stated as -40° C to 65° C

No way they are gonna say "Hey you put your drive inside a freezer"

Moister in the hard drive probably would void any type of warranty. Going from freezing temperatures to hot temps will get your some nice condensation going.

Not if the air inside the drive is already dry, and I'm sure it is.