Dessimat0r Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 Click.... scrape... click...scrape.... Dosen't even mount the drive... 60 gb... lost... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 Originally posted by Dessimat0r Click.... scrape... click...scrape.... Dosen't even mount the drive... 60 gb... lost... and...? do you want some help or something? data recovery? www.drivesavers.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dessimat0r Posted June 27, 2002 Author Share Posted June 27, 2002 I'm just in shock... It just died suddenly on me, and data recovery is way too expensive :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twist Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 thoose damn rebels! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dessimat0r Posted June 27, 2002 Author Share Posted June 27, 2002 Has anyone else here had this problem? Is there a temporary fix to at least read some data off the drive?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaffra Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 gulp my ibm did that the other day, oddly it happened to a partition and i could still access it in dos. there wernt any problems with the other partitions. i ran the ibm disk tool and it repaired something and now the drive works. although im going to sell it soon. sorry to hear about your drive, maybe its still salvagable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cara Veteran Posted June 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted June 27, 2002 Originally posted by Dessimat0r Click.... scrape... click...scrape.... Dosen't even mount the drive... 60 gb... lost... Check your drive and see if it is in the GXP series. If so, contact IBM, they had a recall on 60GB's a while back because of the click of death, they might still be able to do something for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyy4 Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 I like your sense of humor... IBM DeathStar... /me goes off to write this down... "never buy IBM DeathStar HDD's" Thanks for the tip! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dessimat0r Posted June 27, 2002 Author Share Posted June 27, 2002 I can't use the dos tool, it wont mount during startup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kak Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 IBM 60gxp 60gig? Mine did the same thing a month ago. Send it in :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buroja Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 I owned about twelve of the 45GXP series of Desk(Death)star drives, and out of those original twelve I have lost ten. The majority were the 45GB variety, but a couple were the 75GB models (the 60GXP/120GXP series of drives is also flawed.) Your drive is doomed, but you may not yet be ENTIRELY out of luck. Your only hope at this point, aside from spending hundreds on data recovery, is to have a great deal of patience and power your system on and off, over and over and over again, and hopefully on one of those boot-ups, the disk will be recognized, initialized, and accessible. Before doing this, though, PUT ANOTHER DISK INTO THE SYSTEM TO BOOT OFF OF! That way, if/when your failing disk does get initialized, you can copy all of your data off of it and onto a healthy disk. If you should manage to get the drive initialized, DO NOT POWER DOWN OR RESTART UNTIL YOU HAVE BACKED UP YOUR DATA! The reason? You may never get another chance. And yes, for the record, I have done the above procedure before and it has worked for me. It just is going to take great patience as you may have to go through several, several dozen, or several hundred boot-ups before the drive will properly initialize. Assuming, that is, that it will cut you some slack and give you one last boot-up.... Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slouch Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 This happened to me about 2 weeks ago. Only it was 75 gigs! Damn those fools at IBM! I did manage to get a lot of the data back (after two weeks of trying). Here's what worked for me. I bought a new hard drive (it will take IBM almost a month to replace one - and do you really want all your data on ANOTHER DeathStar?) and installed WinXP on it. I disconnected all other drives (optical drives) and put the DeathStar on the secondary IDE channel. It finally recognized the DeathStar and did a diskscan of the drive (like you don't already know that you have bad sectors!). The diskscan took forever because it hammers away on those bad sectors. I left it alone and it finally finished the scan. It booted into Windows (finally) and I began copying files over. I lost some things because of the bad sectors, but all in all, it was a successful salvage. If this works for you, don't be too greedy. Copy over small groups of files at a time. Hope this helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slouch Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 Buroja is right - it will take many, many reboots and different configurations before you get it recognized. Once you're up, that may be your only chance, so be ready to copy stuff over! Once again, good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dessimat0r Posted June 27, 2002 Author Share Posted June 27, 2002 Okay, I'll try that Damn IBM tho and their ****ed up drives its clicking away in the bg here... Btw, its a 61.5GB drive... and I believe that it is 80GXP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buroja Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 IBM's 60GB disks are in their 60GXP series. Contrary to one of the statements above, IBM has never had a recall, nor made any admission that their 45GXP & 60GXP drives suffer from a much higher than average rate of failure. That is why there is an ongoing class-action lawsuit against IBM by owners of the 45GXP & 60GXP series of HDDs. Though they will admit no fault, IBM will replace the defective disk, and it will take them about a month or so to do it, but I strongly urge you to sell that replacement disk or put it into permanent retirement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cara Veteran Posted June 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted June 27, 2002 Originally posted by buroja IBM's 60GB disks are in their 60GXP series. Contrary to one of the statements above, IBM has never had a recall, nor made any admission that their 45GXP & 60GXP drives suffer from a much higher than average rate of failure. That is why there is an ongoing class-action lawsuit against IBM by owners of the 45GXP & 60GXP series of HDDs. Though they will admit no fault, IBM will replace the defective disk, and it will take them about a month or so to do it, but I strongly urge you to sell that replacement disk or put it into permanent retirement. That isn't correct buroja. I received a message via the IBM OEM Channel saying those drives are proven to contain defective parts and should be returned for replacement. I'll dig around and see if I can find the letter I got, been a whlie though, might not still have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JnCoKiLLa Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 the IBM's are well none for that porblem......either some hacked you nice or its the drive.........since I've been hit twice now like that it not the funest thing in the world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slouch Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 I hope the replacement they send me is free from those defective parts. If not, I guess I'll have quite an expensive paper weight.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cara Veteran Posted June 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted June 27, 2002 Originally posted by Slouch I hope the replacement they send me is free from those defective parts. If not, I guess I'll have quite an expensive paper weight.... They will send you one of the new IC series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slouch Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 That may be the best news I've heard all day! Thanks! (Although I'll never buy another IBM drive again!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cara Veteran Posted June 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted June 27, 2002 Originally posted by Slouch That may be the best news I've heard all day! Thanks! (Although I'll never buy another IBM drive again!) Aside from the GXP series, I've never had better hard drives than those produced by IBM. Infact, I'm running two IBM 120GB Drives right now and I wouldn't even consider another brand in the future. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buroja Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 I'm running two IBM 120GB Drives right now and I wouldn't even consider another brand in the future. You're going to have to consider another brand, Cara, since IBM is selling its hard drive division to Hitachi. According to this news release, Hitachi will initially own 70 percent of IBM's HDD division and will take over full ownership in three years, after a series of fixed payments to IBM. Many have speculated that this was IBM's answer to getting out of the HDD business where they have been plagued by lawsuits related to inordinately high drive failure rates for the past couple of years. So, the writing is on the wall: there is no future in disk-based IBM storage solutions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cara Veteran Posted June 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted June 27, 2002 Originally posted by buroja You're going to have to consider another brand, Cara, since IBM is selling its hard drive division to Hitachi. According to this news release, Hitachi will initially own 70 percent of IBM's HDD division and will take over full ownership in three years, after a series of fixed payments to IBM. Many have speculated that this was IBM's answer to getting out of the HDD business where they have been plagued by lawsuits related to inordinately high drive failure rates for the past couple of years. So, the writing is on the wall: there is no future in disk-based IBM storage solutions. :evil: Oh, I know...but I will most likely give the new Hitachi drives a chance since they will be built using IBM Tech. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osiris Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 lol I had no idea HDs just died like this I hope mine is safe from this rebel scum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dessimat0r Posted June 27, 2002 Author Share Posted June 27, 2002 Damn.. if the warranty only allowed me to open it up.... :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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