Gah!
Just turned on my pc at dinner. . . and I am getting that horrible crunching sound. Booted up with w98 floppy and did a scandisk /all /surface And, its failing on my G: Partition Can't even format the bladdy thing! Is there anyway I can force format this drive? Do you know of such a util? As a backup I ahve just or ...
Just turned on my pc at dinner...and I am getting that horrible crunching sound.
Booted up with w98 floppy and did a scandisk /all /surface
And, its failing on my G: Partition
Can't even format the bladdy thing!
Is there anyway I can force format this drive? Do you know of such a util?
As a backup I ahve just ordered a MAxtor ata100 40gb (5400rpm)
The old one is an IBM Deskstar 75GXP, and I am pi$$ed!
Booted up with w98 floppy and did a scandisk /all /surface
And, its failing on my G: Partition
Can't even format the bladdy thing!
Is there anyway I can force format this drive? Do you know of such a util?
As a backup I ahve just ordered a MAxtor ata100 40gb (5400rpm)
The old one is an IBM Deskstar 75GXP, and I am pi$$ed!
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Ah, yes the infamous 75GXP.
I hope that doesn't happen to my 60GXP's tho
I hope that doesn't happen to my 60GXP's tho
First you can get the Drive Fitness Test from the IBM website and test your drive. If it can solve the problem by low-level formatting then it'll let you know and give you the option to do this. Otherwise if the damage is irreparable it'll give you an RMA number so you can return it to IBM (who should then replace it with a 60GXP drive of equal size to the original).
Low level format seemed to do the trick, this is the second time I have had bad sectors on this piece of **** drive.
I lost all my data too
My websites and pics of my dawg (He has cancer so its wound me up a bit!).
Managed to cancel the other hd too.
Once again, thanks for the info
Heres a pic of my dawg (Scroll down to mans best friend)
Hes looking pi$$ed at me there..Rottweiler Doberman cross (More Doby than rotty)
Superb dawg. I rescued him 2 years ago, and now I think hes about 9 yrs old.
gr8 aint he
I lost all my data too
My websites and pics of my dawg (He has cancer so its wound me up a bit!).
Managed to cancel the other hd too.
Once again, thanks for the info
Heres a pic of my dawg (Scroll down to mans best friend)
Hes looking pi$$ed at me there..Rottweiler Doberman cross (More Doby than rotty)
Superb dawg. I rescued him 2 years ago, and now I think hes about 9 yrs old.
gr8 aint he
Quote:I lost all my data too
It could have been worse.
One of my hd's in my raid array went south and lost everything on both 30 - gig drives. OUCH!
It could have been worse.
One of my hd's in my raid array went south and lost everything on both 30 - gig drives. OUCH!
Well...
My best m8 passed away yesterday. We had to put him to sleep.
He didn't look ill, his coat was still shiny, and looked gr8, but the cancer had took hold, and yesterday morning, he couldn't get off our bed. We even had to feed him on there. We finally got him to follow us downstairs. I went to work, and then my lady phoned me at dinner to say he was looking distressed, I got home to find him just lying there, not bothered about anything. We then called a vet out (Good friend of mine I used to work for (I wanted to be a vet years ago)).
Anyways, we buried him back at my mum's place, and we are deeply upset. After xmas we are gonna rescue another doby, and give another a gr8 home.
My m8 (again)
My best m8 passed away yesterday. We had to put him to sleep.
He didn't look ill, his coat was still shiny, and looked gr8, but the cancer had took hold, and yesterday morning, he couldn't get off our bed. We even had to feed him on there. We finally got him to follow us downstairs. I went to work, and then my lady phoned me at dinner to say he was looking distressed, I got home to find him just lying there, not bothered about anything. We then called a vet out (Good friend of mine I used to work for (I wanted to be a vet years ago)).
Anyways, we buried him back at my mum's place, and we are deeply upset. After xmas we are gonna rescue another doby, and give another a gr8 home.
My m8 (again)
Damn sure gald i stuck to maxtor intsead of getting an ibm it's not that they are junk it's just that i the 75gxp's are junk
WTF you said it's a dog and then it shows a pic of a dude WTF
