Clonking HDD

DuncMac

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Hi

I got an ibm 40gig 7200rpm about 2 years ago, the date on the disc sez oct 2001.

Anyway the other day on booting the pc hung on detecting ide drives and there was a knocking sound from the above drive. The disc spun up thou.

Anyway I took it out, splapped it round a bit and put it back in.....

Hey presto wotking again. I'm thinking jammed arm thingy.


Question 1 is could this be caused by a loose ide cable or is it on the way out.

Question 2 is will it still be underwarranty. If so how/where do I go to try and claim on it.

Appreciate any help
 
Don't know about the warranty, but that's the classic sign that your drive is dying, especially if it's an IBM.

Back up you important data pronto and break open your piggy bank and get a new hard drive. It's gonna go sooner or later.

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DuncMac

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If I get a new drive and plug it in while the old one is still working can I just clone the old disk onto the new and then just use the new disk (set 1st partition on new hdd to active after the old one has passed away... is this poss??) once the old ones dead.

If so how


I'm not stupid just real slow on the uptake...
 
Yes is the short answer, but I can't emphasise enough how close you are to losing everything. My brother had a 30GB IBM and telephoned me last weekend with the same clonking sound and boot failure. I managed to plug it into my PC as a slave drive and copy his data, and about 30 minutes later it died completely.

I'd use a disk copying utility to manager the copy process to the new drive. You'll need to format and partition the new drive, set it up as a bootable drive and designate it as the boot drive in BIOS. You can do that as soon as you get the disk, even if the other drive is still working and bootable.

Are you using WinXP? If so, I'll give you a walkthrough.

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Some DeathStar Links for you.
You might actually be able to do something to save that HDD.
<A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=88177#88177" target="_new">http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=88177#88177</A>

<A HREF="http://www.storagereview.com/php/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=DeathStar" target="_new">http://www.storagereview.com/php/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=DeathStar</A>

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