Community weekly poll: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure?
- 12/7/05 4:00 PM
Iomega external hard drive not responsive
by sgoteti - 2/18/08 6:32 PM In reply to: My Hard Drive Failure by the_tinkererWhen I was in the flight the guy next to me accidentally pulled out the cord from the external hard drive and so I didn't get a chance to safely remove it. Now my computer doesn't even recognize the hard drive. I have my sons picture sin the hard drive and any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
IOMEGA External drive failure
by dfigtree - 7/5/08 6:48 PM In reply to: Iomega external hard drive not responsive by sgotetiHaving just restored my XP system after a lightening strike I was happy to see my external in fine condition. I was gonna us it to restore my data. BUT, then my new system hung up for reasons as yet unknown and my IOMEGA EHD now hangs the system whenever an attempt to access it is made. This is backup data of a system that just crashed and burned and then was restored. The data is the only copy. Any ideas on how to proceed? Thanks.
This is not the right forum.
by R. Proffitt - 7/5/08 6:50 PM
In reply to: IOMEGA External drive failure by dfigtree
Please try our XP forum as this is the Community weekly poll Forum and rarely finds our helpful members dropping by.
Hard Disk Crash
by mossdaddy - 12/9/05 5:08 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
When my hard disk crashed 2 weeks before the warrenty expired, the non english speaking script reader did his best to put me off to get past the warrenty date. Of course they wanted to blame the software even though I had already tried reloading the operating system and hed replaced the hard dreive and then reloaded the os and got the computer running.
A couple of weeks and several attempts to close my ticket and they finally sent me a new drive, I loaded the os and did my best to recover. But I won't be buying another HP any time soon.
hard disk failure
by vecere - 12/9/05 7:05 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
Even though I backed up the registry. To delete al of norton 2004. I accidently deletes a bootable fole for windows. Could not even get to boot. Had to reformatt nd reinstall everything
Two rules
by msgale - 12/9/05 10:03 PM In reply to: hard disk failure by vecere1. Disks drive fail.
2. See rule one.
If you don't back up, you have no one to blame but yourself. I have had four disks crash on my PCs since 1984. I have also had disk crash on UNIX servers, UNIX workstations, and CDC Mainframes, the are mechanical devices, they fail. It should be expected.
Once, and only once
by HackBug - 12/9/05 10:08 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
ive been using this computer for a year, and near the beginning of its use, my C drive got the blaster worm *shudders* unfortunatly, it was a brand new version of the virus that hadnt been documented on yet, so i had no idea how to get rid of it, (safe mode didn't work) and so i had to reformat, and even after that, i couldn't install windows on it, because the hard disk had been severly corrupted, i had to install a second drive to be my primary drive, so now i have a E:/ drive as my default... it drives me insane when programs try to install to c defaultly, i get my data mixed up a lot.
fortunetly the C drive works for everything but a windows installation, so i use it as a backup now.
Back when 40Mb HDDs were huge and expensive...
by TreknologyNet - 12/10/05 3:27 AM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
The drive was left on insulating foam for testing, and I forgot about it, so the board overheated and died--entirely my fault.
I did have a 1Gb drive dropped from a height, but the data was backed up.
I now always purchase drives in "matched" pairs, and run them like mirrors. That way I can swap logic boards to salvage data without the need of an expensive specialist.
2 out of 8
by phantazy - 12/10/05 10:08 AM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
types used, Fujitsu, Maxtor, Quantum, unknown,Seagate.
4gb Fujitsu crashed (I think I overloaded). 1 Maxtor arrived dead.
Hard disk failures
by jmagecko - 12/10/05 1:23 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
Over a span of years
2 - IBM travelstar notebook drives (20gb and 30gb identical except for capacity). They both failed within weeks of each other after about 3 years of virtually 100% constant use. Failure was identical = voice coil locking mechanism mechanical failure resulting in loose components and probable r/w head damage. 1 drive partially recoverable as slave, the other was totaled.
4 - spindle motor drive electronics power transistor failure. Transistors replaced, drives ok.
2 - bearing failure. scrap
2 - sticktion. scrap
5+ - massive media corruption to degree where even low-level format unable to recover drive. Electronics/firmware OK--> Probably defective media. It's possible the r/w head pre-amps on the r/w articulator failed, but unlikely. scrap
Hard Drive Failure
by jroehl - 12/10/05 6:35 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
I bought a Dell laptop two years ago with a 40GB hard drive. I'm using it as as a desktop replacement, so I quickly filled it up. I bought a replacement 80GB IBM hard drive. That drive failed about 4 months ago. Initially, the FAT got hosed and the laptop would not boot. I relpaced the dead drive with a 100GB Seagate drive. I put the 80 in an external case and tried to format it. The bearings failed immediately and the drive now sounds like a rock crusher.
Computer Hard Drive Failure
by gellul9 - 12/11/05 8:07 AM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
I had a complete hard drive failure on my employers computer. It happened on October 10, 2005. It was on a Dell Optiplex computer. Our Computer applications department removed the hard drive and tried to recover the data locally within the company with no success. Than they tricked me into approving $230 of my department budget to have a higher level of support perform the data extraction and it would be done ''in house''. After about 2 weeks they came back and said the data couldn't be extracted. Computer support said I could have an outside company perform the data extraction but it wasn't supported by computer applications department thus I would have to issue a purchase order go through competitive bidding ext...ship it out. Another words it was my problem now and not their problem. Computer applications considerd the matter closed. I gave up and lost 11 months worth of data. The interesting thing was the hard drive would spin up and when installing on another computer the other computer would recogonize it but the NTFS partition was corrupted. It's a shame computer applications would just send it out initially to an outside the company who was technically competent.
COMPLETE HARD DISC FAILURE
by G. AL CHAMBERLAIN - 12/11/05 1:10 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
TWO AND ONE-HALF MONTHS INTO A NEW WIN XP MEDIA CENTER COMPUTER, THE WESTERN DIGITAL 250 GB DRIVE FAILED, OVERNIGHT. IT WAS WORKING FINE THE NIGHT BEFORE AND I TURNED THE SYSREM OFF AS I USUALLY DO. WHEN I TRIED TO START UP THE NEXT MORNING, SYSTEM WOULD NOT LOAD. MANUFACTURER TOLD ME THAT FROM THERE EXPERIENCE, THEY HAD NOT HAD ONE FAIL IN SUCH A SHORT TIME.IT WAS REPLACED UNDER WARRANTY
AL CHAMBERLAIN
Hard Disk Failure
by paulg78 - 12/11/05 1:28 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
What started out as a routine Monday Morning, I started an important project, but relized I was running short on paper. I put the project on hold while I ran to the store for paper. When I returned, I was greeted by a computer generating a series of clicks, as the drive was trying to access the data.
The drive was only 6 months old, but than god I backed up the drive only 2 weeks earlier, so when I replaced the drive, I restored all the data and I was off and running.
The moral of the story is BACK UP YOUR DATA.. You never know when the end is near...
Hard Disc Failure?
by redwood39 - 12/11/05 3:37 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
Well Kinda Sorta, An angry wife slammed a fist on my running laptop. Thats okay though she felt so bad afterwards that it was and upgrade from a P-I to a P-III within 2 hours. 
Guess that taught her a Lesson!
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