Do you think my Hard Drive's broken?

[Indybird]

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Cause I sure do. :rolleyes:

-Indybird

[jdbnsn]

certainly sounds ominous.

[Zephik]

Whats worse than the sound of a thousand dying cats? The sound of a hard drive eating itself alive...

...well maybe not, but its up there I'm pretty sure. lol

"Things that make you go bwuhhhh! [Shudders]" - Ron White

[jdbnsn]

I've seen a very clever solution to retrieving data from a physically dead drive on hackaday.com Some kid dismantled the drive and swapped the discs out with a new drive and it worked perfectly.

[Airbozo]

I've seen a very clever solution to retrieving data from a physically dead drive on hackaday.com Some kid dismantled the drive and swapped the discs out with a new drive and it worked perfectly.

Hehe I have done this in the past. The new drive only lasted a couple of weeks, but it was long enough to pull data off of it. I have also revived dead drives replacing the circuit board.

That drive sounds like an old modem.

[NightrainSrt4]

That is the same sound my external was making. Dead. Luckily most everything important was backed up, but I did lose quite a bit of other crap.

The thing that frustrated me was that I take very good care of my stuff. I've seen people throw around their crap and it lasts forever. I take very good care of everything and if one accident or mistake happens its dead forever. I was cleaning/reorganizing my desk area and put the drive on a table about 2' high. Somehow it got knocked over. Dead thereafter. This was all rather recently, as my laptop battery crapped the bed (covered under warranty) and my ram died (Corsair lifetime warranty FTW) all in the same week. Unfortunately the drive was out of warranty.

So ya, I'd say dead, as mine made the same sounds and I couldn't revive it for the life of me.

[Indybird]

That is the same sound my external was making. Dead. Luckily most everything important was backed up, but I did lose quite a bit of other crap.

The thing that frustrated me was that I take very good care of my stuff. I've seen people throw around their crap and it lasts forever. I take very good care of everything and if one accident or mistake happens its dead forever. I was cleaning/reorganizing my desk area and put the drive on a table about 2' high. Somehow it got knocked over. Dead thereafter. This was all rather recently, as my laptop battery crapped the bed (covered under warranty) and my ram died (Corsair lifetime warranty FTW) all in the same week. Unfortunately the drive was out of warranty.

So ya, I'd say dead, as mine made the same sounds and I couldn't revive it for the life of me.

Last time I was using this HDD it worked. Up until now its sat there doing nothing. This makes absolutely no sense to me...

-Indybird

[FuzzyPlushroom]

Yep, sounds FUBAR. The HDD case it's in looks like it's out of an old (P2/P3 era) Gateway - that's not the original Quantum, I assume? Those Fireballs had a pretty high failure rate.

[Indybird]

Yep, sounds FUBAR. The HDD case it's in looks like it's out of an old (P2/P3 era) Gateway - that's not the original Quantum, I assume? Those Fireballs had a pretty high failure rate.

Oh no, thats funny you said that. The computer that was in there is almost exactly what you said. I actually modded that case to fit all standard components, and now I have my mod PC temporarily in here during modding. I had two Maxtor Diamondmax 9 120GBs in there. The HDD in the video was one of those.

The old gateway actually had a 10GB Western Digital Caviar. Here was the system:
-600MHz (500Mhz maybe) Pentium III
-64MB RAM
-4MB Voodoo 3 AGP
-Western Digital Caviar 10GB
-CD Player and CD Burner
-250W PSU

-Indybird

[FuzzyPlushroom]

Nothin' funny about it, I've just worked on/had a metric assload of those. The ones I've had were P2-400, mostly, with a couple P3s thrown in, 8MB Rage AGP, 64MB of RAM, 8.4 gig-ish Quantum Fireball, 200w Newton or Astec (the older ones were Sparkle/Fortron). These PSUs were not-exactly-ATX-sized, but standard ATX holes were inexplicably drilled, despite inadequate clearance for the power socket on nearly any PSU. Quick hacksaw job and you're done, anyway.

They make great blank canvasses, anyway. The only downside (aside from the PSU thing) is that you can't really stick anything larger than a 92mm fan in the back, but that's common with most older cases. The backplate's not really removable either, but with a few rivets gone, you can bend it back and forth until it snaps - a workable gimcrack solution.

I had one I was going to set up as a network gateway at one point, but never got around to it. Naturally, being the Gateway gateway, it was going to be called Cannabis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_drug_theory)...

I have, at least, stuck the HDD cages from these into other machines (I had a Power Mac in a cardboard box, held together with packing tape and baling wire, at one point... fill in the blanks), so they've been good for something.

[Indybird]

Nothin' funny about it, I've just worked on/had a metric assload of those. The ones I've had were P2-400, mostly, with a couple P3s thrown in, 8MB Rage AGP, 64MB of RAM, 8.4 gig-ish Quantum Fireball, 200w Newton or Astec (the older ones were Sparkle/Fortron). These PSUs were not-exactly-ATX-sized, but standard ATX holes were inexplicably drilled, despite inadequate clearance for the power socket on nearly any PSU. Quick hacksaw job and you're done, anyway.

They make great blank canvasses, anyway. The only downside (aside from the PSU thing) is that you can't really stick anything larger than a 92mm fan in the back, but that's common with most older cases. The backplate's not really removable either, but with a few rivets gone, you can bend it back and forth until it snaps - a workable gimcrack solution.

I had one I was going to set up as a network gateway at one point, but never got around to it. Naturally, being the Gateway gateway, it was going to be called Cannabis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_drug_theory)...

I have, at least, stuck the HDD cages from these into other machines (I had a Power Mac in a cardboard box, held together with packing tape and baling wire, at one point... fill in the blanks), so they've been good for something.

I love this case also. If I wasn't broke, didn't already have a mod going and needed another ATX case, I'd get right to flat out modding this.

To get it standardized I had to hack up the PSU area like you said, cut a standard I/O panel opening (which required de-riveting the bracket), and moving the hard drive cage mounts as far down in the case as possible (large graphics cards would hit the cage.

-Indybird

[AMD Killa]

I have an old less than a GB quantum harddisk. I think it was about 200mb. Guessing WIN 95 territory.