tweakerpc

i was like , i have tried to change cables, switching channels, it is like my hdd is 100%dead , i have never had a drive that failed like this, i had drives fail, but they normaling are found in the bios, this like no power is getting ot it, and it is fullying pluged in, there is alot of stuff on this drive i have,

it is a seagate 120 gig hdd dec 2004, this hdd has always been on a computer with 1gig or 2 gig of ram ,so it was not disk thrashed , yes i could send it back but, there is data that is only on this hdd only, , or is dell playing retard and don't like harddrives right now

PC eye

Gee? you should read the "Dell Hell" thread someone started sometime back! Without a working drive you would most likely need help there from a professional data recovery service. If it was simply an inaccessible drive or partition a live for cd Linux distro like Knoppix or ubuntu could be used for copying files from there to another drive. But...? Data recovery programs won't help there. Frequent backups to removable media could have. That's the hard cold facts there.

tweakerpc

yes ,i know i found this dell in the garabe last yeat the drive has worked, i thought seagates was suppose to good long lasting drives , i have no idea , but my dell is like , i don't want take apart my main rig just to test out ,,, it reads my cd-roms drives fine, but it goes retared on the hdd

tweakerpc

well this my first drive that won;t read at all

PC eye

I'll give the edge of Seagate over Maxtor any day of the week. But I've seen Seagates go on older builds while actually never having seen a Western Digital go at this end in over 10yrs. of use. Need an old WD 50mb drive anyone? The Seagate I saw where I dropped my old WD 1.4gb was one of the older 1.2gb models found in an old Packard Bell. That old WD 1.4gb drive is still in use on that old 95 system there to this day. That was swapped in what 1999. By then I was waiting to upgrade from a 13gb to a larger drive.

oscaryu1

Ill take the 50MB drive =-) I have a dead 40MB drive

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evo3

Since the early day in 1986 Seagate HDD is not very good, I never had a seagate HDD with me. I prefer Fujitsu, Toshiba, IBM/Hitachi, these are more reliable HDD.

evo3

Bro next time is better to have some external HDD as backup So yor important data will not get lost. I use to do that have at least 5 external HDD as backup

PC eye

I'll go further and give Seagate the edge over IBM drives as well as Maxtor junkers. The "quiet" IBM drives? give us a break! Maxtors were described as the fly apart wonders some years back. As far as Fujitsu, Toshiba, and Hitachi I'll let others buy those while I stay with WD.

oscaryu1

To be truthful Seagates not THAT bad.. i had one lockup on my cause the motor was stuck.. gave it a sharp rap and it ran like a pro. I would just get a new hard drive ... does the motor still spin? can you hear the read/write heads click?

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