hd died, need help!

[fizler]

hey out there!!!! does ANYONE have any 2 gig or greater hard drive they would like to send me? I would be willing to pay S&H! i had to shut down today due to a storm, and when i booted it said primarty hard disk fail and its really loud. if anyone an old 2 gig 5400rpm thats they arn't using, i would kiss your feet and call you god. im in the states! PLEASE HELP!

[Dave S]

Probably no help but I have a 2gig Wide SCSI [50pin] if it’s any good it’s yours.

[wbierman]

I have a stack of 2.5Gig Quantum Fireball ELs. Let me test them and I'll let you know.

[fizler]

can't use the scsi, but thanks.... if any of those work i only need one to put an os on and crunch. what should i stick on there linux?

[shubles]

Originally posted by fizler
can't use the scsi, but thanks.... if any of those work i only need one to put an os on and crunch. what should i stick on there linux?


thanks fizler :rolleyes:

dont start dnar...
u've got an entire forum dedicated to the bs u dribble...

*cheekmodeisonagain*
:D

[Virus]

Take the hard drive out of your case and bang it flat on the counter. Hard, but not too hard. I've had this happen before and this solved the problem. Unfortunately, this doesn't work but maybe 2% of the time, but what do you have to lose?

[siggy]

That is a males way of fixing something. If it ain't working get a hammer.

[zhotfire]

I hate to ask fiz but... you did do some diagnostics on the drive in question, right? Just to make sure it's dead?

[LBaker]

Originally posted by siggy
That is a males way of fixing something. If it anyworking get a hammer.

"If all else fails beat on it" is my moto. If nothing else it takes out your frustrations ;)

LB

[Dustin]

If it doesn't sound like marbles banging around, there might be hope for it.

If you haven't already, I would try to low level the drive.

[Stilgar]

Here's a few links for hard drives. Most of them have a diagnostic on thier site. Also will have a low level format prog. for their disks. I have not gotten a chance to try it yet on my brothers old hard drive. Been kind of busy this weekend. But all other ways to ressurect it failed. (Scandisk, spinrite, full unconditional format.) I figure I'm not losing anything if it does not work. I'm going to toss it on a boot disk and just have the one drive hooked up to try it.
http://www.westerndigital.com/service/FAQ/dlgtools.html#lba
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/index.html
http://www.storage.ibm.com./techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm
http://www.maxtor.com/library/allfiles.html