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Diky
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Posts: 22
Location: near myself
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Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:44 am |
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Well it's time to another of my impossible-useless-wasting time experiences:
Yesterday i tried an old Laptop. Ok turn on, Bios post and at that point HD starts rattle rattle rattle HD failure... Ok let's start again, same as before. I remembered same behaviour with another HD but in that case after an unpredictable number of restart it works again. I take HD and put it on freezer like a read somewere, well it doesn't works anyway but trying many many times the miracle happened rattle rattle CLICK! After that click HD seems to work perfectly. I believe it's caused by leak of magnetization due
to long time inactivity, but i'm curious if anybody has another thesis. Thanks. |
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ryan
Joined: 19 Apr 2006
Posts: 261
Location: WisConSin
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Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:27 pm |
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Bad landing zone or bad parking mech |
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harshbarj
Joined: 01 Oct 2004
Posts: 169
Location: behind you!
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Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:49 am |
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sounds like the head was stuck. I have had heads on mfm drives get pulled off on startup. ide drives generally just need a good fast twist to un-stick them. Now if it was a fairly new drive I'm not sure of the cause as they lift the heads off the drive and can't stick. |
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Puckdropper
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Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Posts: 766
Location: Not in Chicago
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Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:56 am |
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Hard drives work best with their platters parallel to the ground, not off at one angle or another. I had one system that wouldn't start with the platters in the drive perpendicular (90 degrees) to the floor, but when I turned it so the platters were parallel with the floor it ran fine.
Motors do wear out, and the MTBF for older hard drives is not great. One 1 gig Maxtor I had had a MTBF of just over a year of continual running. |
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Erik
Joined: 28 Feb 2006
Posts: 127
Location: LI, NY
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Wed May 02, 2007 7:30 pm |
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Sorry to sound stupid, MTBF?
By the way, I noticed the older Dells and some Compaqs liked to put the drives at 90 degree angles in the cases... (esp. when they still used the IBM Deskstars. *GAG*) |
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T-R-A
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Posts: 594
Location: Western NC
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Thu May 03, 2007 6:17 am |
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Erik
Joined: 28 Feb 2006
Posts: 127
Location: LI, NY
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