HDD 'died' cyclic redundancy error

Maybe it was just their SCSI line but I wouldn't buy another if they were
the last drive on earth.

 

Hitachi probably made that drive for IBM. Download the Hitachi Feature Tool.
From it, you can create a floppy boot disk with programs that access the
drive in DOS bypassing windows. If the drive has a data problem F tool will
enable you to format and I think rewrite the MBR. If it is a hardware
problem with the disk, F tool will hang also.
bg

 

I`ve swapped out plenty of failed Fujitsu and Maxtor drives, and not
only in PC`s. I try to only buy Quantum and Seagate drives these days
but I`m sure everyone has their own tales to tell.

RonUK

 

I never buy cutting edge hard drives. I chose somewhere in the
middle of the curve, and have never had an in warranty hard drive
failure, in over 10 years of using them.


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I thought Quantum was gone?

 

Home/SOHO use is a bit different than where I placed these servers in
industrial/commercial applications.

 

Brilliant. I should have thought of that. Thanks.

Graham

 

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:02:40 +0100, in sci.electronics.design Eeyore

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http://www.boredstop.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=134&Itemid=34


martin

 

well if it's a cyclic redundancy error that means that the key that
windows has on file for the data on the drive no longer matches what
the drive is reporting ergo drive is corrupted. Deskstars of that age
are notorious for dying randomly (my uncle went through 2 pairs of
drives in his raid 0 before switching to seagate 320GB SATA with a
controller card earlier this year) Desktars are known in the computer
world as deathstars for a reason. I've never personally had one die
on me but then again the 2 laptops I had previous to this one (a
thinkpad I series and a dell latitude (don't flame I was in college
when I bought the first one and it died on me and the dell was
purchased by my parents as a replacement it was used and I sold it to
buy the acer dual core i'm typing this post on) . back on point junk
the drive unless you really really need the data and go with a
seagate, WD or Maxtor drive all better drives and with prices now
falling (I live in Canada and 500GB drives are now $130) you can get ~
20-30 times the disk space for pennies hope this helps

 

go to grc.com and buy SpinRite - well worth the money

Strongly seconded.

 

Again, that was roughly my thought. In years past I'd have used Norton disktools with

Boot win98's DOS from a floppy and see if you can "see" the drive. Win9x is
much better at dealing with imperfect drive issues than is NT/2000/XP and
plain DOS is even better than win for drive funnies. But try SPINRITE first.

 

It's hardly worth $89 to resuscitate an old 20GB drive.

Graham

 

Thanks for that advice.

Is there a trial version ? It's $89 to buy.

Graham

 

No, but they'll gladly refund your purchase price if it doesn't work for you.
This happened to me... I had a partially-dead hard drive, and after trying
various options, bought a copy of SpinRite. It couldn't do any better, so I
e-mailed them and they did immediately credit the purchase back to my Visa.

Steve Gibson (the author) has been around forever, and while he's definitely
something of a character, he is completely honest.

 

That's excellent service.

Graham

 

In Win9x you can enable command line history by typing "doskey".

- Franc Zabkar

 

As I said, I'm basically ignorant of XP, and what little I know about
it I learnt from watching alt.msdos.batch, and by working
[reluctantly] on friends' machines.

In any case other XP users have suggested that you would be better off
using cmd.exe. In fact, if I were to include just one feature of XP in
Win98SE, it would be XP's extensions to batch language.

- Franc Zabkar

 

Points to them for inventing Winchester technology. That said, their
so-called fix for the Deathstar drives didn't work. I got hold of one
early, lightly used and long before its first click of death. I applied
the fix and sent it home. The friend brought it back inside of a year,
clicking away, and though we managed to salvage a little data, most of it
went the way of the Deathstar.

 

Command.com is NOT "stripped". It has never had a history function
without running a TSR to manage it. That would have been (not anymore)
DOSKey.

 

Thanks! I guess that I just imagined the computer room with our
Prime mini-computer and racks full of Compaq servers.


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Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida