People with IBM 75gxps that failed. What signs did you get before the drive died?

[Doomguy]

Did it make any odd noises or did your data get corrupted? Or did it just not work anymore? Thanks.

 

[Scouzer]

Mine just came DOA

 

[dowxp]

noises. then long bootups. then i just gave up.

 

[VBboy]

"Error reading from drive C:"



I know, it's not funny. I couldn't afford a 75 GB drive then, but now I don't want it anyway..

 

[dowxp]

oh. and it couldnt read anything. it tried loading win2k. but failed at the loader.

 

[Boogak]

My 30gb 75GXP made some funny grinding noises twice during 2 months. The noises would stop and the drive would work normally so I didn't pay any attention to it. It finally developed bad sectors one day and I had to do a low level format.

 

[subman]

My 75GXP 30gb drive made some scratching sounds and I switched the computer off. When I restarted it a few minutes later it booted fine. I immediately backed up the drive and ran IBM's low level format utility - as suggested by IBM - and the drive has worked fine since the last month.

This is a replacement drive to another simllar drive which died in 5 days of purchase after making the exact same scratching sounds.

 

[bacillus]

IBM drive noises !

 

[HansXP]

Mine made noises - not sure what kind, they weren't any listed on that IBM page - and then stopped later. I don't know what the problem was, but the drive has been working fine. Every couple of weeks I run the IBM diagnostics just to make sure everything is okay, and in a few weeks, I'm replacing the sucker just to be safe.

 

[Doomguy]

My drive sometimes makes a different noise sometimes when reading. I guess it could be described as scratchy. Should I be worried? If I rma'd it would ibm just send me another 30 gig 75gxp?

 

[Doomguy]

The sound sounds more metallic than a regular read if you know what I mean.

 

[mcveigh]

about 4 months ago I ordered 4 75gxp hard drives, 2 20gig 2 30 gig all were very quiet except one.that one was just loud than the others, I used their disk utility but it said it was good , no problems. Stll I didn't like the fact that only one was louder so I called IBM and RMA'd it no question from them. very fast turn around from ibm

 

[HansXP]

<< If I rma'd it would ibm just send me another 30 gig 75gxp? >>



Yes, they'll send you another 75GXP drive that has been refurbished.

 

[Doomguy]

From what I heard from an ibm tech support person the drives they send you are new. Have they stated they send out refurbed drives?

 

[LickEmSmack]

Mine made a slight scratchy whine right before it died. It would get stuck in the &quot;Verifying DMI pool data&quot; and never leave. I RMA'd it and I got sent back a refurb unit. Good turn-around and the HD-Tach scores seem in-line with a goood unit. It was a 45 GB and failed about 3 months ago

 

[bonkers325]

clicks

 

[bonkers325]

corrupted disk

 

[Ben]

No warning what so ever. One day it worked, the next morning it would hang half way through booting.

Scandisk would hang.

Fdisk would hang.

Then my middle finger would hang.

 

[Mday]

why would your middle finger hang?

i mean, how do YOU give people the bird ;-)

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one of my WD 18GB experts made by IBM did the clicking, read error thing last week... =( it's working now though.

 

[JoeDaddy]

IBM drives go bad?

 

[Ben]

Mday, that was one of those gangsta style birds.

 

[pillage2001]

Can't seem to find the sound that suits my drive that died.

Symptons?? NONE!!!!! It just died yesterday night!!!

Anybody know where do I get to contact the Quantum RMA department?

 

[Ben]

Contact Quantum for an IBM drive?