I suppose it can make more than one sound, but here's what's happening.
Custom built rig, 4 and a half years ago at a local shop. ABIT KT7RAID, Athlon 900 TBird, 768 RAM, 2 IBM DeskStar 75GXP 30GB harddrives. I thought I would do RAID stuff and dual boots and in the end I've just used the2nd drive for backup - files and ghost images.
Today I did a ghost of the C drive to the 2nd drive, and afterward copied it to DVD. After I finished the DVD, and ejected the disk, there was an odd sound - sounds are so hard to describe, of course - each repetition of the sound takes a little over a second, a whir-clunk-beep routine. Clunk makes it sound heavier than it really is, sounds like something engaging and failing and beeping to say it failed.
So I turned it off after a minute or two. Thought it might be the DVD drive, whose drawer just opened and shut after the copy.
At boot it was able to get past the black XP splash screen before the sound started and then the boot would go no further. When I restarted with the reset button, it started chunk-beeping right away and would not even get to Windows. So I feared the C drive was the goner.
Then I pulled the power cord out of the 2nd, backup hard drive, and it booted just fine. So that tells me who the culprit is, and I figure I can get a new drive and use the Ghost image I just made to create the new drive as C, and clear out the current C drive and put it into service again as the backup (although it too must be pretty old and maybe I should get 2 drives)
Which raises the interesting question of how can I put the image onto the new drive and then deal with the old C drive? I can take out the old one and put the image on the new one, but at what point could I get in and clear the old drive? I know some about formatting, and expect I would have to boot to dos and run fdisk and select the old drive to format. But would there not be the same confusion then? 2 drives calling themselves C and how would fdisk know???
I guess I would put the old one in by itself and clear it, after loading the image on the new one and verifying it is good?
So, what's the recommended hard drive these days? Cost is more important than performance or features for me, and I was nowhere near filling the 30GB on either of them.
And is there reason to be careful about what would run on the old motherboard?
Thanks
Custom built rig, 4 and a half years ago at a local shop. ABIT KT7RAID, Athlon 900 TBird, 768 RAM, 2 IBM DeskStar 75GXP 30GB harddrives. I thought I would do RAID stuff and dual boots and in the end I've just used the2nd drive for backup - files and ghost images.
Today I did a ghost of the C drive to the 2nd drive, and afterward copied it to DVD. After I finished the DVD, and ejected the disk, there was an odd sound - sounds are so hard to describe, of course - each repetition of the sound takes a little over a second, a whir-clunk-beep routine. Clunk makes it sound heavier than it really is, sounds like something engaging and failing and beeping to say it failed.
So I turned it off after a minute or two. Thought it might be the DVD drive, whose drawer just opened and shut after the copy.
At boot it was able to get past the black XP splash screen before the sound started and then the boot would go no further. When I restarted with the reset button, it started chunk-beeping right away and would not even get to Windows. So I feared the C drive was the goner.
Then I pulled the power cord out of the 2nd, backup hard drive, and it booted just fine. So that tells me who the culprit is, and I figure I can get a new drive and use the Ghost image I just made to create the new drive as C, and clear out the current C drive and put it into service again as the backup (although it too must be pretty old and maybe I should get 2 drives)
Which raises the interesting question of how can I put the image onto the new drive and then deal with the old C drive? I can take out the old one and put the image on the new one, but at what point could I get in and clear the old drive? I know some about formatting, and expect I would have to boot to dos and run fdisk and select the old drive to format. But would there not be the same confusion then? 2 drives calling themselves C and how would fdisk know???
I guess I would put the old one in by itself and clear it, after loading the image on the new one and verifying it is good?
So, what's the recommended hard drive these days? Cost is more important than performance or features for me, and I was nowhere near filling the 30GB on either of them.
And is there reason to be careful about what would run on the old motherboard?
Thanks
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