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oh no my GXP drive is clicking at me

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SWScorch

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Great, just great. I had bought a 60GB 60GXP drive a few months back, thinking that since the number of incidents with the 60 series was lower than the 75 series I had good odds. Well, just a few minutes ago, I was chatting on AIM and listening to mp3s when I hear this fairly loud "click.... click.... click..." and then the comp locks up tighter than your sphincter at a gay bar. I immediately pulled power, and am now on my other computer.

Do you think theres a chance I could still recover my data? Thank god my music is on a serperate physical drive; all I'll lose is my games and some data.... But dammit, this pisses me off..... Looks like its time to go back to Western Digital
 
Don't get too cozy with Western Digital... I've had 2 go bad in a year (40 gig 7200RPM & 60 gig 7200RPM)

The funny thing? Both the referbished drives I got back work a crapload better than the original 😀

Good job on backing up to another hard drive, at least you're not out totally!

🙂 (think positive 😉)
 
yeah, the main thing I'm always worried about is my music... I have around 20Gigs, and I would never be able to completely rebuild my collection....

If I do lose the stuff, its only documents and games, which I can always reinstall. Do you think its safe to boot on this and see if I can back stuff up, or should I hook it up as a slave and back up that way?
 
I'm not sure where I read this article... Maybe you can get a link on AT news of last 2 weeks

Basically, it says the following: Most problems with dying IBM GXP60 or GXP75 drives are due to overheat, specifically overheat of that big controller chip you can see on the bottom of your HD. The author also says that if you get proper airflow across the HD chances are it won't fail. In case it has already failed, chances are your data has not suffered anything. In fact, he suggests you can take the controller board out of an identical HD and install it in the failed one so you can back up all your important data.
 
I had an 80mm fan circulating air across the drives. If its just the controller chip, I thought the clicking noise was the head contacting the side of the drive itself....

Too bad I dont have any other IBM drives or else I'd try that....
 


<< Do you think theres a chance I could still recover my data? >>



Hook it up as a slave and find out. One of my techs fried an IBM laptop HDD, so I ordered an identical drive and was able to do like MarkHark mentioned.
 
the clicking sound may also be the drive's heads trying to align properly, to compensate for heat dilatation of the platters, and maybe your controller chip is still fine...
 
And another gxp dies, think they would stop selling those suckers, seen so many posts on those dying.
 
I was considering on buying a 40 GB IBM GXP60, but after reading more about these unexpected failures and also how much they could contribute to the total heat generated in a powerful Athlon system, I decided to buy myself and old Maxtor 54oo rpm. in fact have it on my hands now, it reads D540X-4D.
Any comments on this model?
 
See just like i expect more IBM HD posts about there IBM 75 or 60 gxp series HD failing 🙂
I said that about a week ago in a different thread. Was easy to predict sense IBM HDs have known problems all along. What i do not get is why people still buy IBM HDs when they know they will run into problems later on. It may not be till 3 months or even 1 year down the road but most people run into problems. Well i am expecting more IBM HD failures coming very soon once again.
 
yeah, and now they have the GXP120 model... who knows what's going on inside those beasts??? Will it repeat the story of it's predecessors?
 
MarkHark yep exactly we have no idea if they will have the same problems or not yet. They may and they may not. For IBM's sake i hope not. But who knows anymore with IBM.

 
Well, I hooked it up as a slave, realized I couldnt copy anything because the GXP is NTFS and all my other comps are FAT32, so I downloaded IBM's Drive Testing utility. Came back with a 0x73 error: Defective Drive. Excessive Shock. Heh. But, I am running off it right now, so it should last long enough for me to burn my important stuffs to a few CDs I hope.

On the positive side, while I was being bored during the extensive tests the drive was put through, I really tidied up my case and wires. Looks beautiful now. 🙂 I even took pics I'm so proud of it! 🙂
 
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