hard drive failure and my home freezer

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hi, my pc froze and I restarted it to get SMART (on my dfi nf4) reporting my hard drive had failed, or is about to. I reset it again and it was correct, no windows post, and upon another reset it came up with the menu about windows in safe mode etc etc, and whatever option I chose stil no boot into XP. I tried the hard drive in my external caddy on my laptop aswel but the hard drive is dead, even though it makes the beep-beep XP noise happen (you know the one where you add a plug and play device like a usb stick). i dropped the hard drive from a hight of 30cm to see if the arm was stuck, then put the hard drive in my home freezer to contract all the bits of metal to see if that helped but it stil won't work. Oh well was only a 40gig WD IDE, but a hard drive shoudl fail after 3/4 years, and this drive had my windows set up with my 50hour oblivion save on :mad: just wondering what every1s thoughs are on this
 
mglover070588 said:
hi, my pc froze and I restarted it to get SMART (on my dfi nf4) reporting my hard drive had failed, or is about to. I reset it again and it was correct, no windows post, and upon another reset it came up with the menu about windows in safe mode etc etc, and whatever option I chose stil no boot into XP. I tried the hard drive in my external caddy on my laptop aswel but the hard drive is dead, even though it makes the beep-beep XP noise happen (you know the one where you add a plug and play device like a usb stick). i dropped the hard drive from a hight of 30cm to see if the arm was stuck, then put the hard drive in my home freezer to contract all the bits of metal to see if that helped but it stil won't work. Oh well was only a 40gig WD IDE, but a hard drive shoudl fail after 3/4 years, and this drive had my windows set up with my 50hour oblivion save on :mad: just wondering what every1s thoughs are on this
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No real set time on a failing disk, environmental factors such as heat/mounting/vibration/ cleanliness of power etc are all factors when considering hdd life. Sometimes its just down to luck as well.
 
well i found a 5400rpm 13gig hard drive to have xp on again, and it is SLOW. took over an hour to install the add-on to bf2 including the update. So I need a new hard drive for windows. I will still use my 250gig IDE ina caddy for films, game images etc, and will still use the internal 250gig IDE for installed games.

I am after a 7200rpm sata2 hard drive, which sort would you all recommend?? I would like a quiet drive but that isn't important if one stands out from the others
 
Foehammer2003 said:
lol, i know dude i was just playing, tbh when a HD goes its gone, and there is nothing on this planet than can save your 3"1/2 little mechanical friend from the clutches of evil
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actually I've rescued several from the abbys with a good beating with a medium sized screwdriver
 
just wondering, if i get a 250 gb seagate 7200.10, how long after do you think it would fail, and would it give any warning signs before it failed, as im not gonna be backing up till its on its last hours
cheers
 
Very hard to predict, if you get any kind of errors thrown up about your disk(s) it is best to back up immediately, not worth seeing how long it'll hold out.

OT: All Seagate Cudas have 5 year warranties :)
 
Tetras said:
Very hard to predict, if you get any kind of errors thrown up about your disk(s) it is best to back up immediately, not worth seeing how long it'll hold out.

OT: All Seagate Cudas have 5 year warranties :)
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cheers, but i kinda mean, before i drive failed, it wouldnt just fail right, it would show an error of some kind right??

and say if the drive did fail, and i wanted another one, would i have to send them my old one back??

Cheers
 
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