I bought a 60GB IBM Deskstar hard drive less than 2 months ago. Last night the thing started making a "clink-ding" noise every few seconds. At first that seemed normal as I've had this sort of thing happen before and nothing came of it and it went away. However, it continued to do it for 15 minutes so I shut down the computer. Upon rebooting it this morning the drive was no longer detected. Sometimes that happens, and a reboot fixes the problem.
Not this time. So I take it off and install it on this computer and the bios finds it just fine. But, when booting into XP, chkdsk starts running and starts reporting bad segments left and right. I let it go for 10 minutes and it was still scanning the disk and reporting bad segments so I rebooted and skipped the test. the pc then was extremely slow in loading into XP (ie... 5 minutes). Device manager reports nothing wrong with the drive, except that it needs to be formatted. UGH!
so I went to recovery mode from my cd and tried rewrting the partition tables and boot records since that had worked in the past. nope. so then I went to IBM's website and downloaded some diagnostics program. Well, what do you know... the drive failed all tests.
ugh... that'll teach me to use a single hard drive for backups. This drive had all my files from previous hard drives (3 of them). Something like $3k or so worth of 6 years of work and installed programs. So... all of my k's of emails, Perl programs I wrote (sorry Links 2.0 folks...), and what not. [the drive was used as the primary master on my secondary machine; I used file sharing over my LAN connection to serve as a backup system... I never copied anything from that drive over to my primay computer in order to conserve disk space]
Guess I'll be getting a couple non-IBM hard drives and syncing them every couple of days. I'm not into fooling around making backups through CDs. who has time to sift though GB's of data to backup important stuff, much less burn dozens of CD's?
Any suggestions and QUALITY hard drives?
--Philip
Links 2.0 moderator
Not this time. So I take it off and install it on this computer and the bios finds it just fine. But, when booting into XP, chkdsk starts running and starts reporting bad segments left and right. I let it go for 10 minutes and it was still scanning the disk and reporting bad segments so I rebooted and skipped the test. the pc then was extremely slow in loading into XP (ie... 5 minutes). Device manager reports nothing wrong with the drive, except that it needs to be formatted. UGH!
so I went to recovery mode from my cd and tried rewrting the partition tables and boot records since that had worked in the past. nope. so then I went to IBM's website and downloaded some diagnostics program. Well, what do you know... the drive failed all tests.
ugh... that'll teach me to use a single hard drive for backups. This drive had all my files from previous hard drives (3 of them). Something like $3k or so worth of 6 years of work and installed programs. So... all of my k's of emails, Perl programs I wrote (sorry Links 2.0 folks...), and what not. [the drive was used as the primary master on my secondary machine; I used file sharing over my LAN connection to serve as a backup system... I never copied anything from that drive over to my primay computer in order to conserve disk space]
Guess I'll be getting a couple non-IBM hard drives and syncing them every couple of days. I'm not into fooling around making backups through CDs. who has time to sift though GB's of data to backup important stuff, much less burn dozens of CD's?
Any suggestions and QUALITY hard drives?
--Philip
Links 2.0 moderator
I think I'm going to get sick