Disaster 40 Gig Quantum Fireball

Well, I pulled it out of an old rig my brother's gf had layin around. 40 gig, 7200 rpm, thinkin hey, I could use this as my windows drive and my 120 gig as storage. All was going well, installing XP and got to the point where it said 3 minutes left, and I moved my foot and bumbed the drive (which was resting on the floor at the time because I hadn't decided how to mount it yet) It starts making a metallic ping ping ping noise. Installation freezes, can't get the computer to even recognize there is a drive there now. That quick the drive bit the dust. Dammit.

 

perhaps you should have figured out how to mount it before anything else

 

Well thanks. I'll try to be more ingenuitive next time.

 

drive was probably on its last leg anyway if it broke that easily. i wouldn't even call this your fault

 

As above, the drive shouldn't have broken that easily. But it did.

 

It is actually extremley easy to destroy a hard drive, a slight bump is enough for one of the read/write heads to smash into the platters, think it doing that while the platters are spinning at 7200 rpm

 

wow that was Stupid idea to put it on the floor and not mounting it

 

not as stupid as placing it on a desk under a dvd-rom drive and, while booting up, accidentally having the dvd-rom thump down on the harddrive, smashing your mp3 collection, and all your documents you hadnt backed up, into oblivion.

 

Oh, that REALLY sucks.

 

ok how the hell.. lol sorry but thats just really really sad.

what was your Hard Drive 200gb? or something?

 

oh well, its all still there on the internet, starting again can be a good thing

 

Hard Drives are strange old things. Seems like they can be fine and the slightest dunt and there clicking

 

You know whats worse. Using your main computer with a 160 gig SATA HD and Windows XP and a NTFS partition. Then you get a file system error. Every other computer in the house has 98 and a FAT32 partition. I can't tell you how many times I've said "I'm never installing XP again." But I always do..

 

Every computer i have runs Windows XP on NTFS and i've never had file system error ever.

I'd much rather be using XP then 98... *shudder*

 

Strange...I have run my hard-drives sitting on the floor, I've moved them while they were running (well, actually the Mrs. has), I've done a lot of the things they say to 'never do,' and (knock on wood) I've NEVER had a failure, a clicking, an error, or a break of any kind.

Now watch them not boot up this time, just because I said that.

 

Not counting the ones i have killed as a direct result of window modding, i have murdered one and hurt one drive, i dropped both (not at the same time) from a fair height. One, a 3.2GB WD, was spinning when i dropped it, it died completely.
The other one, a 4.3GB WD, was not spinning, i dropped the removable HD tray it was in, the last 700 MB of the drive got pretty corrupted, but the rest of the disk still works and hasn't had any major problems.

 

lol i drop disks DAILY. but for the most part, they come out fine. I have soft carpet in my house.

 

Well, my 4.3GB fell 2 meters onto a concrete floor with a hard carpet.

 

butterfingers.... lol

I havbe only managed to kill a Maxtor 80gb hd. It still ran but the pinging noise drove me up the wall, and windows didnt like it. Maxter did replace it tho.

 

I've killed 6GB and rest of computer by modified molex-connector For some reason it had 12V in groundpin.. You know the rest.

And then I've killed 13GB hdd for some reason, still don't know what. Maybe shorty..

And Maxtor Diamondmax +9 160GB. It just died

Now I have 3x3GB HDDs on my computer 'cause I sold the maxtor which came from warranty...