imported_Phil
Diamond Member
I've had this 120Gb DM+9 (2mb cache) for a year or two now, and just when I was working with the screenshots for my forthcoming "Microsoft Anti-Spyware vs everything else" post, it starts making the dreaded Click Of Death noise.
Sigh.
It's only a storage drive for DV clips, so there's nothing important on it, per say. It'd just mean a few hours of recapturing from the camcorder. Irritated, I decided to set GetDataBack on it to see if I could get it to skip the MFT (as the COD starts when you try to open or view the root of the drive) and just get some of the more pressing clips off before retiring it.
GetDataBack started, and then immediately stopped again, locking the machine. I could hear the disk chattering away (normal seek noises...) and got bored waiting, and turned it all off.
Lo and behold, I boot her up again, and the drive works perfectly, like nothing's ever happened. I'm copying the clips off now and will then run some diags on it, but that's seriously weird. 😕
Still, it's not to be trusted - a second 200Gb 8Mb cache 7200.7 Seagate will be on it's way soon.
Damned hard disks.
Sigh.
It's only a storage drive for DV clips, so there's nothing important on it, per say. It'd just mean a few hours of recapturing from the camcorder. Irritated, I decided to set GetDataBack on it to see if I could get it to skip the MFT (as the COD starts when you try to open or view the root of the drive) and just get some of the more pressing clips off before retiring it.
GetDataBack started, and then immediately stopped again, locking the machine. I could hear the disk chattering away (normal seek noises...) and got bored waiting, and turned it all off.
Lo and behold, I boot her up again, and the drive works perfectly, like nothing's ever happened. I'm copying the clips off now and will then run some diags on it, but that's seriously weird. 😕
Still, it's not to be trusted - a second 200Gb 8Mb cache 7200.7 Seagate will be on it's way soon.
Damned hard disks.
