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    I've read all about failing IBM drives, but I've built four PCs with the 75GXP and 60GXP but none had failed. Well now one of them finally has - a 20GB 60GXP in my sister's PC. The drive started clicking this morning and the BIOS wouldn't detect it. I ran IBM DFT hoping it would detect the drive but that failed too. No previous warning signs - the drive just started clicking this morning. Is there any way I can retrieve the data?

  • #2
    AFAIK only if you send it to a recovery service where they'll remove the platters, put 'em in another chassis & copy it off...and even then it'll be iffy as you don't know their condition.

    This is why I removed mine (4 mounted in a RAID0) before they went bad.

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    • #3
      Mine clicked out, but I let it cool down and I was able to use it again. I didn't trust it any longer than it took me to move off my data though.
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      • #4
        I've had five IBM hard drives and four off them at some time or other have had the click of death. Reseating the power lead on all of them has cured the problem 99% of the time. The 1% didn't was solved by running IBM's dft tool. No other hard drives have displayed this behavour. Also power supplies/cables have changed in this period so it won't be the powersupply cabling. It also happened on two different computers.
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        • #5
          Well I haven't been able to get the PC to detect the drive, so I couldn't get any data from it, or even run DFT. That's 15GB of data gone. I don't think my sister will be too happy to hear that I'm definitely not going to buy or recommend another IBM drive again.

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          • #6
            Wouldn't do any good if you did. They sold off their HDD business to Hitachi a couple of months ago;



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            • #7
              Welcome to the club...

              For data-recovery, I'm not of much help. At least I wasn't able to recover any data of my dead IBM 60GXP.

              I guess specialised companys could retrieve some-most of your data, but at an insane price-point.
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              • #8
                I had three GXP Drives give up the ghost on me, but the weird thing about it was that when I tested them a couple weeks later on a different PC with the DFT they tested out fine. The one hard drive was out of a Friends Machine and it was about 2 years old and the other two where from my RAID setup. I winded up dumping the RAID drives for $100 bucks and the other one for $45 bucks. I didnt feel too bad about it since they still had a warrenty to be replaced it they really "died"
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                • #9
                  May I join the club?

                  Yesterday my 60Gb 60GXP crashed.

                  I was reinstalling a computer for a friend (his harddisk also died (Quantum Fireball)). When I booted my own machine I recevied a disk io error 00001000 , and some strange noises where coming from my HD. So I rebooted and ran DFT, the disk was full of bad sectors .

                  But luckely I can still access the disk, altough 3 out of 6 partitions are gone . And I'm now trying to backup all remaining data to another disk before the whole disk is dead.

                  P.S. Raid 5 here I come.
                  Main: Dual Xeon LV2.4Ghz@3.1Ghz | 3X21" | NVidia 6800 | 2Gb DDR | SCSI
                  Second: Dual PIII 1GHz | 21" Monitor | G200MMS + Quadro 2 Pro | 512MB ECC SDRAM | SCSI
                  Third: Apple G4 450Mhz | 21" Monitor | Radeon 8500 | 1,5Gb SDRAM | SCSI

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Liquid Snake
                    Well I haven't been able to get the PC to detect the drive, so I couldn't get any data from it, or even run DFT. That's 15GB of data gone. I don't think my sister will be too happy to hear that I'm definitely not going to buy or recommend another IBM drive again.
                    Does it try and spin up if it doesn't it looks like your drive has died. If it does try another machine. I had one that although it was detected I couldn't format it. Dft said it was fine at the same time. Taking it to work and slapping it into a intel chipset I could format it striaght away. After that it worked fine.
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                    • #11
                      Already 12Gb salvaged. Copying data under dos is really slow (12Gb in about 4 hours).
                      Main: Dual Xeon LV2.4Ghz@3.1Ghz | 3X21" | NVidia 6800 | 2Gb DDR | SCSI
                      Second: Dual PIII 1GHz | 21" Monitor | G200MMS + Quadro 2 Pro | 512MB ECC SDRAM | SCSI
                      Third: Apple G4 450Mhz | 21" Monitor | Radeon 8500 | 1,5Gb SDRAM | SCSI

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                      • #12
                        Well if you're using Dos to get the files load up smartdrv that should help things along a little bit.
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                        • #13
                          I'm already using smartdrive .
                          Main: Dual Xeon LV2.4Ghz@3.1Ghz | 3X21" | NVidia 6800 | 2Gb DDR | SCSI
                          Second: Dual PIII 1GHz | 21" Monitor | G200MMS + Quadro 2 Pro | 512MB ECC SDRAM | SCSI
                          Third: Apple G4 450Mhz | 21" Monitor | Radeon 8500 | 1,5Gb SDRAM | SCSI

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                          • #14
                            Should have given it some memory too play around with.

                            One question how are you preserving your long files names??
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                            • #15
                              hehe, http://sourceforge.net/projects/lfntools/
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                              Second: Dual PIII 1GHz | 21" Monitor | G200MMS + Quadro 2 Pro | 512MB ECC SDRAM | SCSI
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