Problem with HardDisk, Pls advise

[mikemann]

Pinging or severe knocking sound from a hdisk means that it suffered a mechinical breakdown. This problem is very prevalent in the past 10mb to 40gb kind of hdisks. Recent years, this problem is getting lesser, so I guess they are making more reliable hdisks.

Unfortunately, most of this cases, you cannot retrieve data from it by normal means. (as long as you can't access it as a drive on your windows os) It's as good as gone, unless you want to spend into the thousands to get data forensic experts to do it (involve tearing the data platter out). Not all data can be recovered even by experts.

If under warranty, you can send it for repairs, but a blank hdisk will be returned to you. Most probably, it's not the same one you send in. They will accept your spoilt hdisk and certify that its spoilt and under warranty, and then dispatch another already repaired one back to you.

That's why last time when I was still actively repairing pcs, my advise when making service calls is always: "backup your important data, or no one can help you get it if your hdisk crash".

 

[blueprintstudios]

hahah well.. like what mikemann says, your hard disk is in trouble. tell you what, pm me with your contact etc, bring your hard disk to me, I'll see what I can do everything possible without voiding warranty (at no charge.but if I do something right, maybe $10 for nice lunch or something haha..) . high chances are you may lose your data. so the last thing you want is to lose your warranty also. but otherwise you shouldn't throw it away or anything, one of my old IBM 13 gig hard disk had that pingpong problem since 2002 and only recently a few months back I thought I'd give it one last shot before I set fire to it, and guess what, the drive actually loaded by luck! after 4 years. I copied about 60% of the data out before it broke down again after reboot and couldn't load anymore.

but I strongly suggest next time don't get seagate or hitachi. in my opinion, western digital is the most reliable. I have loads of seagate hard disks now up to 1.5 terabyte worth, but I consider them as "hard disk that will breakdown anytime." (but I like seagate's 5 year warranty though). trust me, get a DVD writer, get a whole stack of 100 DVDrs for $55 (437gigabyte). and get a good organising backing up data habit. DVDs are likely to last longer than hard disk. but provided you burn your data PROPERLY. don't go burning at maximum speed and have writing errors. cheers

-ron

 

[Gr3y]

thats a $100 worth of info!

Thanks a billion blueprintstudio..

yeah i called skylet and they told me it most prob is because of my service pack problem...i got another 80GB harddisk which got no such prob..(now i understands y)

but as for the lossing of a few mb of storage, i fully understood i studied electronics ok bro! but alot of my knowledge are returned to my lecturers.. lol..

Ok will try to update e service pack 2nite and see how!
thanks alot for those that helped!

Gr3y

 

[Gr3y]

hahah.. erm.. yeah i guess. it's all PC-geek 101 talk. doesn't really apply to the topics in this music forum but what the heck, it's the IT-Audio/Musician age. hope it helps.

we use pc for home recording bro! there goes e link!
:twisted:

 

[IceSkyz69]

So bro gr3y the prob's solved ?

 

[blueprintstudios]

IceSkyz69 : if your ram is 256. and it shows only 234mb +, another factor that can lead to this is, if your video is coming from the onboard VGA on the mainboard. (which means you don't have a graphics card). so if it states "bla bla cpu, ram, and mb w/ onboard VGA 16mb" take note that this "onboard 16mb VGA" will minus off 16mb off your ram. like if my onboard VGA is 64mb , it'll minus off 64mb off my 2 gig ram.