Old hard disk is dead, long live the new one

flava · 2003-07-06, 00:40

My 40Gb Quantum Fireball is dead, after 2 years of service. Yesterday I was watching TV while the computer kept on crunching with Prime95. One of us has to work, isn't it? :) Suddenly there was a stange noise, like the computer suddenly decided to reproduce the noise of a chainsaw

It stpped after a few seconds but was frozen. After restarting it and trying a scandisk, the HORROR: bad sectors all arround, strange noises and all. I turned it off to keep the damage low.
This morning I went out and got a 120Gb Seagate for a almost decent price (i guess, it was about $110) and managed to restore on it with PQDI the primary partition (W98) of the old one plus all the important data. Fortunately, all the bad sectors were on the the system area of the second operating system (WinXP).
The new disk seems to work fine and the good part is it's almost noisless. Let's hope it will live longer than the Quantum.

eepiccolo · 2003-07-07, 12:10

What a way to go.

2003-07-06, 00:40	#1
flava Feb 2003 1110110₂ Posts	Old hard disk is dead, long live the new one My 40Gb Quantum Fireball is dead, after 2 years of service. Yesterday I was watching TV while the computer kept on crunching with Prime95. One of us has to work, isn't it? :) Suddenly there was a stange noise, like the computer suddenly decided to reproduce the noise of a chainsaw It stpped after a few seconds but was frozen. After restarting it and trying a scandisk, the HORROR: bad sectors all arround, strange noises and all. I turned it off to keep the damage low. This morning I went out and got a 120Gb Seagate for a almost decent price (i guess, it was about $110) and managed to restore on it with PQDI the primary partition (W98) of the old one plus all the important data. Fortunately, all the bad sectors were on the the system area of the second operating system (WinXP). The new disk seems to work fine and the good part is it's almost noisless. Let's hope it will live longer than the Quantum.

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2003-07-07, 12:10	#2
eepiccolo Dec 2002 Frederick County, MD 2×5×37 Posts	What a way to go.