Is it a HD? or a buzzsaw?

6 Mar 2005 3:55 AM

Kev

Hi all

Just a quick question. One of my internal drives (dont know which one yet
since they are stacked) is almost sounding like a cordless drill. Is this a
symptom of impending failure? Or failure, but a ways down the road? Both
are Quantum.

Thanks :o)

6 Mar 2005 5:35 AM

kony

On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 03:55:39 -0000, Kev
<die_spammers_die@pht.zzz> wrote:

>Hi all
>
>Just a quick question. One of my internal drives (dont know which one yet
>since they are stacked) is almost sounding like a cordless drill. Is this a
>symptom of impending failure? Or failure, but a ways down the road? Both
>are Quantum.
>
>Thanks :o)

Impending

You ought to immediately copy off anything needed as it
could be a gonner at any moment- especially if you let it
stop spinning by powering off.

6 Mar 2005 6:12 AM

Jerry G.

I would be doing a serious backup, if you have a buzzing sound. This may be
a bearing that is failing.

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Jerry G.
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Hi all

Just a quick question. One of my internal drives (dont know which one yet
since they are stacked) is almost sounding like a cordless drill. Is this a
symptom of impending failure? Or failure, but a ways down the road? Both
are Quantum.

Thanks :o)

6 Mar 2005 7:25 AM

Kev

"Jerry G." <jerry***@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:38vncnF5suc1tU2@uni-berlin.de:

> I would be doing a serious backup, if you have a buzzing sound. This
> may be a bearing that is failing.

thank you both... I will be checking which one it is. Both right now
basically have just an OS, and programs on one of them. The W2K drive I
backed up yesterday... except for a couple small files that it wouldnt let
me copy (yup the MS utility). Linux on the other but I only just installed
it again this morning. Whichever one is the problem, if it goes before I
get a replacement I will just put the backup on the other.

Maybe safe mode will allow me to backup all files? It would go on my
external drive, so I dont know if floppy would be able to use it... maybe
the install disk.

9 Mar 2005 7:41 AM

Kev

Kev <die_spammers_die@pht.zzz> wrote in
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> "Jerry G." <jerry***@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:38vncnF5suc1tU2@uni-berlin.de:
>
>> I would be doing a serious backup, if you have a buzzing sound. This
>> may be a bearing that is failing.
>
> thank you both... I will be checking which one it is. Both right now
> basically have just an OS, and programs on one of them. The W2K drive
> I backed up yesterday... except for a couple small files that it
> wouldnt let me copy (yup the MS utility). Linux on the other but I
> only just installed it again this morning. Whichever one is the
> problem, if it goes before I get a replacement I will just put the
> backup on the other.
>
> Maybe safe mode will allow me to backup all files? It would go on my
> external drive, so I dont know if floppy would be able to use it...
> maybe the install disk.
>

Well got a WD 80GB for $90 - $60 in rebates... (30 from mfg 30 from
store), so $30 in the end... I hope.

Ended up being able to borrow Ghost from a friend to clone the drive.
After some starts and stops figuring out what I was doing it seems to
have worked but got a couple BSDs... not sure why. Maybe because the new
drive is bigger than the old one? Hopefully W2k is just working out the
kinks. One thing I wish Ghost allowed me to do was partition the drive,
but the partition to partition clone didnt work... lack of boot part I
guess. Maybe repairing the master boot record would have done it? Im sure
I didnt do it right but I wanted to get it working so just did drive to
drive.

Anyways, the drives are nice and quiet, everything loads quite a bit
snappier, and everything works... excepts those BSDs which were rare
occurances.

Cheers all and thank you for the heads up on my hard drive / electric
saw. :-)