Samsung F3 just failed help needed

chippy08 · 16 Jun 2011 at 02:45

hi guys i noticed my pc tonight took longer than normal to boot up then my f3 drive disappeared from windows and also bios and after listening to it i can hear the drive clicking away.

Anyway is there any way to try get it working again as there 1Tb of stuff on it i need to get off before i send it back to samsung.

snaggster · 16 Jun 2011 at 02:49

You could try plugging it into another pc. It may let you access it if your not booting from it.

chippy08 · 16 Jun 2011 at 02:52

Tried that its just a storage drive.

chippy08 · 16 Jun 2011 at 05:01

Just noticed that since the drive failed 3 of my other drives now have this warning on them ultra dma crc error count but they never did before.

G J · 16 Jun 2011 at 13:58

The CRC error's can be due to a faulty SATA cable, I got cheep right angled connector ones and over time got crashing/stuff taking ages to load and other various errors.

Changed the cable all was fine, so give that a try.

My drive didn't have the clicking you describe though

Edit: All drives have it.... try the drives one at a time in another system and see how that goes.

chippy08 · 16 Jun 2011 at 14:14

I have replaced some sata cables today but been getting blue screens all night not slept yet as i need to sort it.

Undesirable · 16 Jun 2011 at 17:14

What motherboard do you have?