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Strange hard drive death....IBM Deskstar 60GXP

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Andrew111

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I just finished installing a new video card in my other system and the computer booted up without a problem......I started up 3dmark2001 to test my new video card and had it loop each test 5 times......I left the computer while it was doing 3DMark2001 and when I returned, the screen was entirely black, not even an error message. I thought that was very strange, and when I rebooted.....I got a disk boot failure. Going into the BIOS, I find out that my hard drive has dissapeared from the IDE primary master position. That computer was only built about a month ago, I find it odd that the hard drive would kick the bucket so fast, I even had a hard drive cooler. Does this sound like a normal hard drive death? I've never had a hard drive die on me before, but I didn't think it would just die without first giving off signs of problems.

Does anyone have any auggestions on the best way to try to salvage some data on the hard drive? TIA.
 


<< I just finished installing a new video card in my other system and the computer booted up without a problem......I started up 3dmark2001 to test my new video card and had it loop each test 5 times......I left the computer while it was doing 3DMark2001 and when I returned, the screen was entirely black, not even an error message. I thought that was very strange, and when I rebooted.....I got a disk boot failure. Going into the BIOS, I find out that my hard drive has dissapeared from the IDE primary master position. That computer was only built about a month ago, I find it odd that the hard drive would kick the bucket so fast, I even had a hard drive cooler. Does this sound like a normal hard drive death? I've never had a hard drive die on me before, but I didn't think it would just die without first giving off signs of problems.

Does anyone have any auggestions on the best way to try to salvage some data on the hard drive? TIA. >>


Send the drive to a disk recovery service.
 
It's not dead...it's just the mobo's BIOS being quirky. Both of my 75 GXP's do it after I flashed to the latest BIOS for my KT7A RAID board. Several reboots and they reappear. It's weird, one can disappear and the other be there, or vice versa.

I haven't found a solution, and mine just did it to me so I'm posting from the wife's laptop.
 


<< It's not dead...it's just the mobo's BIOS being quirky. Both of my 75 GXP's do it after I flashed to the latest BIOS for my KT7A RAID board. Several reboots and they reappear. It's weird, one can disappear and the other be there, or vice versa.

I haven't found a solution, and mine just did it to me so I'm posting from the wife's laptop. >>



That's strange. I have never flashed my Shuttle AK31 Kt266a m/b since it came with the latest BIOS, the only hardware change I made recently was the new video card. I'll try booting it up a few times tomorrow morning, I'll give it some time to "compose" itself😉
 
You were right matt, it booted up without a problem this morning. I wonder how many people have this peculiar problem. I hope it doesn't happen that much to me, lol.
 
I've had a problem with my maxtor 27.3Gig drive like that too. I got a fat table error, a hard drive error, bsods, and everything but it still works. I do have bad sectors now though and it said it wouldn't go to FAT32 with bad sectors, but it is set to FAT32 now in the properties.

Hard drives are strange sometimes. I couldn't even defrag thru windows defrag but I got a shareware copy and it worked fine since then.
 
Sometimes when a drive begins acting quirky like that it can be a sign of a future drive failure, but hopefully not 😉
 
The hard drive dissapeared again last night and this morning as well.....but get this.......the DVD drive dissapeared too last night, so this might not be the hard drives fault. I have the DVD drive as IDE primary slave, and I have a CDRW as secondary master(this has not dissapeared ever). The BIOS could be messing up when it does the power on self test.

I'm still not 100% sure their is no problem with the hard drive.....because when I went to do a scan disk yesterday, I got a BSOD about a specific memory range after it scanned for awhile. Also, when I booted up the computer this morning, it saw the hard drive, but when I got to the Windows XP login screen and entered my password, it wouldn't go into Windows.......I heard clicking which was coming from the hard drive. It clicked about four times, than no sound at all. I reboot, and the hard drive and DVD drive are gone. This is a pretty weird problem I got here....not sure how to troubleshoot it because if it was the hard drives fault, than why did the DVD drive dissapear too? If it's the BIOS that's messing up....than why did the hard drive get a BSOD when doing a scan disk, and making clicking sounds? Why did my system work perfectly for a month with rigorous use of about 8 hours a day, than just after installing a new video card, it screws up like this. All I can say is that this is one VERY annoying problem.

 
Bah, IBM drives are crap lately. They usually make a good drive but their GXP series has a very high RMA rate and they are very well aware of this problem. Just RMA it, but recovering your data is probably not going to happen unless you can pay to send it to be done, if the drive is truly dead that is.
 
It sounds like you have your drives on a pci controller card, right???

I would think the bios in terms of the ide controllers would be unrelated...

try these:

1) check cables
2) try different cables
3)maybe replace the cmos battery though I am not sure if this could be it, but it is a cheap alternative if it works..

Also what is the power supply??? If the drive is insufficient it could be causing something similiar to this...
 


<< It sounds like you have your drives on a pci controller card, right???

I would think the bios in terms of the ide controllers would be unrelated...

try these:

1) check cables
2) try different cables
3)maybe replace the cmos battery though I am not sure if this could be it, but it is a cheap alternative if it works..

Also what is the power supply??? If the drive is insufficient it could be causing something similiar to this... >>


I'm not using a pci controller card, but thanks for the tip on switching cables. I didn't think of doing that, but I'll try anything🙂
 


<< Cheers for reminding me that i need to buy that seagate barracuda 4 soon .... >>



OMG did you read the whole post or just decided that it was indeed IBM ! by the way Andrew please change the heading to strange bios errors.
 
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