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Patrick wrote
The whole industry was getting poor yields Bull****. and sales were down More bull****. so they decided to release bunch crappy HDs and offer 1 year or 30 day warranties. Samsung never did. WD hardrives are are the best I know of.. You wanna get out more, child. I have 4 WD740 raptors 1 WD360 raptor and 4 80gb JB IDE drives and have never had any issues with them,, The JB drives are hardly the current mass market drives WD sells. I would stay clear of samsung fujitsu. More fool you. And Fujitsu doesnt even bother with 3.5" IDE drives anymore, shows how little you actually know. "Zag" wrote in message news:s3OKe.194479$%K2.140427@pd7tw1no... You said it's less than 2yrs old and warranty's expired, all WD 120gb drives come with a 3yr warranty, look into RMA'ing it. I'd stay clear of any WD drives, due to past experience with them. "eb7g" wrote in message newsNBKe.186006$%K2.81544@pd7tw1no... I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. |
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if the drive is unreadable with any other tools.....
try this works.. 90% of the time freeze the *******.. overnight get ghost.. made by symantec.. a hard drive cloning utility install the dead hard drive back.. boot up with ghost, and let the cloning begins! On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:32:08 GMT, "Patrick" wrote: The whole industry was getting poor yields and sales were down so they decided to release bunch crappy HDs and offer 1 year or 30 day warranties. WD hardrives are are the best I know of.. I have 4 WD740 raptors 1 WD360 raptor and 4 80gb JB IDE drives and have never had any issues with them,, I would stay clear of samsung fujitsu. "Zag" wrote in message news:s3OKe.194479$%K2.140427@pd7tw1no... You said it's less than 2yrs old and warranty's expired, all WD 120gb drives come with a 3yr warranty, look into RMA'ing it. I'd stay clear of any WD drives, due to past experience with them. "eb7g" wrote in message newsNBKe.186006$%K2.81544@pd7tw1no... I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. |
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Or just get Spinrite.
"Rob" wrote in message ... if the drive is unreadable with any other tools..... try this works.. 90% of the time freeze the *******.. overnight get ghost.. made by symantec.. a hard drive cloning utility install the dead hard drive back.. boot up with ghost, and let the cloning begins! On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:32:08 GMT, "Patrick" wrote: The whole industry was getting poor yields and sales were down so they decided to release bunch crappy HDs and offer 1 year or 30 day warranties. WD hardrives are are the best I know of.. I have 4 WD740 raptors 1 WD360 raptor and 4 80gb JB IDE drives and have never had any issues with them,, I would stay clear of samsung fujitsu. "Zag" wrote in message news:s3OKe.194479$%K2.140427@pd7tw1no... You said it's less than 2yrs old and warranty's expired, all WD 120gb drives come with a 3yr warranty, look into RMA'ing it. I'd stay clear of any WD drives, due to past experience with them. "eb7g" wrote in message newsNBKe.186006$%K2.81544@pd7tw1no... I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. |
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I just checked it with Partion Doctor 3.0. Turns out....every sector is
bad. I guess it's toast. I bought a Seagate Barracuda 200GB instead, they have the 5 year warranty. thanks for your posts and emails. Zag wrote: Or just get Spinrite. "Rob" wrote in message ... if the drive is unreadable with any other tools..... try this works.. 90% of the time freeze the *******.. overnight get ghost.. made by symantec.. a hard drive cloning utility install the dead hard drive back.. boot up with ghost, and let the cloning begins! On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:32:08 GMT, "Patrick" wrote: The whole industry was getting poor yields and sales were down so they decided to release bunch crappy HDs and offer 1 year or 30 day warranties. WD hardrives are are the best I know of.. I have 4 WD740 raptors 1 WD360 raptor and 4 80gb JB IDE drives and have never had any issues with them,, I would stay clear of samsung fujitsu. "Zag" wrote in message news:s3OKe.194479$%K2.140427@pd7tw1no... You said it's less than 2yrs old and warranty's expired, all WD 120gb drives come with a 3yr warranty, look into RMA'ing it. I'd stay clear of any WD drives, due to past experience with them. "eb7g" wrote in message newsNBKe.186006$%K2.81544@pd7tw1no... I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. |
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"eb7g" wrote in message news:OmOKe.192114$5V4.119424@pd7tw3no... Xrayman wrote: download the diagnostic disk from WD and run the quick and extended health test on the drive. you can also zero fill the drive (since you don't need the data) and verify afterward to see if there are bad sectors in the drive. unfortunately the program does not give you the actual errors, just error codes so you can't really tell what they are. but having this happen to the drive once, you should avoid putting important data on it, even if it recovers. "eb7g" wrote in message news:4TCKe.186935$%K2.75849@pd7tw1no... ccrc wrote: I use GetDataBack and it has worked wonders on my old "unreadable" (by Windows) drives. -Chris. On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:57:41 GMT, eb7g wrote: I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. Cool. I don't need the data on it, I just want to be able to use it again, as it's not an old drive. As it turns out the Diagnostic tools don't work as I immediately get a 'cable' error to the drive. The cables I fine, I tested it out with other cables and drives. Sounds like your drive electronics is toast, time for a new drive. If you want to recover the data, you can use a circuit board from an identical drive. You can put the good board back after the data recovery. Usually a media death starts with bad sectors growing slowly or very quickly. Oh course a head crash is instant death as well but you usually hear a lot clicking from the head and spinning up and down as it tries to read from the dead head. |
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Rob wrote:
if the drive is unreadable with any other tools..... try this works.. 90% of the time depends what the failure mode is. freeze the *******.. overnight If you must give this advice at least tell people to put the HDD in a plastic bag before putting it in the freezer. get ghost.. made by symantec.. a hard drive cloning utility install the dead hard drive back.. boot up with ghost, and let the cloning begins! Using this method you may have limited time until it heats up and stops working again. It might be quicker to get important files off it instead of cloning the entire drive. -- Mike |
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thats why i mentioned in my first line " if the drive is unreadable
with any other tools " in other words, if the drive is toast, give it a shot On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:05:53 GMT, "Mike Redrobe" wrote: Rob wrote: if the drive is unreadable with any other tools..... try this works.. 90% of the time depends what the failure mode is. freeze the *******.. overnight If you must give this advice at least tell people to put the HDD in a plastic bag before putting it in the freezer. get ghost.. made by symantec.. a hard drive cloning utility install the dead hard drive back.. boot up with ghost, and let the cloning begins! Using this method you may have limited time until it heats up and stops working again. It might be quicker to get important files off it instead of cloning the entire drive. |
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Good choice, that's the exact one I have in mine too.
No problems with it so far. "eb7g" wrote in message news:EcYKe.197330$s54.70843@pd7tw2no... I just checked it with Partion Doctor 3.0. Turns out....every sector is bad. I guess it's toast. I bought a Seagate Barracuda 200GB instead, they have the 5 year warranty. thanks for your posts and emails. Zag wrote: Or just get Spinrite. |
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If every sector is bad, that means the media or disk is not accessible.
Good chance the controller or the head controller (inside the drive, not on the board) is fried. The original poster only want to check if the drive still works and don't care about the data so it's a piece of junk now. You wouldn't trust a drive like that even if it recovers. "King Jeremy The Wicked" wrote in message news:5ZbLe.218521$on1.114246@clgrps13... In article EcYKe.197330$s54.70843@pd7tw2no, says... I just checked it with Partion Doctor 3.0. Turns out....every sector is bad. I guess it's toast. did you try writing it with 0's? (low level format) I bought a Seagate Barracuda 200GB instead, they have the 5 year warranty. thanks for your posts and emails. Zag wrote: Or just get Spinrite. "Rob" wrote in message ... if the drive is unreadable with any other tools..... try this works.. 90% of the time freeze the *******.. overnight get ghost.. made by symantec.. a hard drive cloning utility install the dead hard drive back.. boot up with ghost, and let the cloning begins! On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:32:08 GMT, "Patrick" wrote: The whole industry was getting poor yields and sales were down so they decided to release bunch crappy HDs and offer 1 year or 30 day warranties. WD hardrives are are the best I know of.. I have 4 WD740 raptors 1 WD360 raptor and 4 80gb JB IDE drives and have never had any issues with them,, I would stay clear of samsung fujitsu. "Zag" wrote in message news:s3OKe.194479$%K2.140427@pd7tw1no... You said it's less than 2yrs old and warranty's expired, all WD 120gb drives come with a 3yr warranty, look into RMA'ing it. I'd stay clear of any WD drives, due to past experience with them. "eb7g" wrote in message newsNBKe.186006$%K2.81544@pd7tw1no... I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. |
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