I currently own a Dell Dimension 4600C. I left my house with it turned on like any normal day, and when I came back I noticed that the hard drive was making a pretty loud sound. There wasn't anything on the computer monitor and after hitting a few buttons on the keyboard, I powered the computer off. I then powered the computer back on and got the message that the primary disk could not be found. It didn't recognize the hard drive at all in the bios. I also noticed that the hard drive was just making a clicking sound (it didn't sound like it was spinning or anything). I took the hard drive (80GB Western Digital Caviar WD800) out of the Dell and put it in an HP Pavillion as a slave drive. However, when the HP powered on, it said "operating system could not be found." When the Western Digital is disconnected, the HP works fine and boots normally. I have read reviews on the WD and haven't seen too many good things. Many people have had it fail on them..I do have SOME data backed up, but not ALL and much of it is extremely important. Does anyone have any suggestions before shipping it off somewhere and spending TONS of money? Thanks
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Hard Drive Crash
- Thread starter rock15478
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- Oct 11, 2000
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there could be a few reasons why it is giving boot error
drive is in wrong place and it is seen as the master drive
the bios see's a bad drive and is set to give error stop
reason drive quit
it's bad and no software that is out there wil get it back
the clicking is head crash because the drive speed is wrong or
heads are bad
seagate is on the top for failure rates just don't buy cheap oem type hdd's
drive is in wrong place and it is seen as the master drive
the bios see's a bad drive and is set to give error stop
reason drive quit
it's bad and no software that is out there wil get it back
the clicking is head crash because the drive speed is wrong or
heads are bad
seagate is on the top for failure rates just don't buy cheap oem type hdd's
rock15478,
If it is just clicking then it might be worth finding another 80GB Western Digital Caviar WD800 and swapping the logic board on it (fairly easy to do)in an effort to recover your data. If the drive is making a scraping noise then it probably wouldn't be worth it as the heads are probably trashed and would have already scratched the platters.
If it is just clicking then it might be worth finding another 80GB Western Digital Caviar WD800 and swapping the logic board on it (fairly easy to do)in an effort to recover your data. If the drive is making a scraping noise then it probably wouldn't be worth it as the heads are probably trashed and would have already scratched the platters.
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