another f**ked harddrive

[-TARBY-]

I had two hd's on my main PC.

The Priamry Slave made some very strange high pitched noises, windows came to a halt.. Now all it does is make a noise

ka chunk whirrr ka chunk whirr...........


Does this mean its ****ed?

its an IBM Deskstar and I think I have heard of these going worng before?

[Henry]

Usually a

Ker chunk is not a good sign =*(

Basically need to know these things

does drive boot up at all? Or does it just not do anything when u turn on computer like just plain black screen.

If its not even making the monitor turn on then its ****led =*(

So just get onto who ever sold u it and get them to replace it, IBM deskstar have a 3 year warrenty, or on some models a 5 year warrenty. So you will be able to go to the IBM website and check if your not sure if its still in warrenty.

also while you are there pick up the Disk Drive utility from the files section. Its called like Drive test and its very good for sorting out problems on HD. But if ya can't even boot it up into bios then no point in getting it

[-TARBY-]

Its a slave m8. so ist just sitting at the mo with no power

whats the addy to this thing?

[Henry]

gimmie 5mins and i will find it =)

[Henry]

http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm

there ya go m8, its called

Drive Fitness Test =)

[EnIgMa]

tarby does this answer your question....

i sent ibm my deskstar back 5 weeks ago for relacment...

phoned 3 days ago and the guy said it would be a while cos ibm have taken back all of that range and a new lot is being made up to replace peeps fecked hd's...

he told meh they have had 65% of the gx 40, 60, and 80 gig hd's back... the new gx120 seems to be ok.... see if you can get it rma back to ibm...

[Henry]

exactly what i did nig m8ty =)

[-TARBY-]

I am going to buy a non IBM HD this weekend cos I cant trust them anymore... This is the 2nd one thats been ****ed..

I take it ones that have been going for 2years are not affected?

I nearly had a heart attack last night as I thought I has lost everything..... Its all backed up now...

[*Neo - Dave - eX]

western digital are good and the new maxtors are pretty good for the price and i like thier warranty's

[Immsy]

Ive lost count of the times I read posts on here and Overclockers. When peeps post about HDD woes its almost 99% sure to be an IBM.

[HaCktiC]

seagate is working fine here....and maxtor also :D

[Dalehead]

Get the maxtor D740X ATA133 drives m8. Either 60 or 80 gig versions are awesome.
I too am never buying IBM again.