Aqua-Soft ForumsGuys, I'm in panic. I've got Fujitsu MPG3307AV 30GB hard drive and it seems to go down right now. For some reasons it heats up rapidly and the whole system turns off, then BIOS cannon recognize this drive. I've got all my projects and all my settings there, I dunno what to do.
My hard drive is dying
Get the drive to a data recovery facility at once. Don't even turn on the computer berfore then. Have the experts get your data. After that, have them run diagnostics on the HD and the motherboard.
Maybe get some extra cooling on the HDD and save youre import stuff?
Didn't you get a S.M.A.R.T. notice?
Maybe get some extra cooling on the HDD and save youre import stuff?
Didn't you get a S.M.A.R.T. notice?
That's what I try to do now. And S.M.A.R.T. ... Did it ever help anyone?
PS. The whole WINXP folder (where my beloved and unique themes were stored) is already dead (it was somehow converted into a file). My dev projects partition drive seems to be fully inaccessible. Now I'm sitting on another PC, where is no Delphi, Corel, Office and other stuf. It was a gaming device, it doesn't even have any VS's here. Aggrrrhh I'm gonna kill someone in Fujitsu. It's my second drive from them and it dies againg (first was MPG3204AT)
Maybe get some extra cooling on the HDD and save youre import stuff?Didn't you get a S.M.A.R.T. notice?
funny. last week i was in sysstats looking through mbmmeterclass, pdhmeterclass and diskmeterclass for s.m.a.r.t so i could make a docklet (green thumbs up, red thumbs down, or the like). did i miss it or should i bug judge to add it? is it even addable?
MAN !!! Whatever you do DONT start windows xp with that drive hooked up. It will mess it up. It says
at boot up that it needs to be scanned and then it corrupts the whole contents of your drive. Ive had
it happen many times. Boot up some other OS and get the data off it, or if you have the money to shell
out take it to one of those data recovery places...
It's not WinXP's fault that your data is lost.
Fujitsu drives have been and will always be, crap.
You have bad sectors everywhere and XP is trying to recover them, just don't let chkdsk try and repair it during boot up.
Booting to another OS won't help either as they will attempt to correct the bad sectors as well.
Looks like your boot sector and MFT are hosed.
Load it into another PC as a secondary drive and abort any attmepts to repair it. Then copy as much as you can to another drive.
Next time, get a Western Digital or to save some money, get a Maxtor drive. Yea the Maxtor is not the greatest either, but they are 10,000 times more reliable than Fujitsu's.
i agree with rjohnstone. pop it in as a slave and copy over all the data.
Actually rjohnstone, you would want to get a Seagate more than anything. They are the best quality. I would suggest this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822148015 Its only 4 dollars more than the 40gb if you can believe it, worth the extra 4 dollars lol.
i don't see any problem with that.
just wait until it cool down. then make it as slave. boot and there you can see you hd. then go back your files up. after that you can repartition and format that drive.
bro, grab a hd cooling.
Neither Maxtor nor Seagate have served me well; go get a Western Digital drive.
It's not WinXP's fault that your data is lost.Fujitsu drives have been and will always be, crap.
Agree. I said already I had one before, but it was 20GB and under Win98.
You have bad sectors everywhere and XP is trying to recover them, just don't let chkdsk try and repair it during boot up.
Can you guys recommend me a real good disk checker under WinXP? I know how bad is standard one.
Booting to another OS won't help either as they will attempt to correct the bad sectors as well.Looks like your boot sector and MFT are hosed.
Load it into another PC as a secondary drive and abort any attmepts to repair it. Then copy as much as you can to another drive.
Fuj was always a slave (it was convinient when my friends used to come to me with their HDs). Now trying to plug it into another, much more powerful machine.
I noticed that in my miditower with VIA KT133 chipset every HD I put into it did heat up dramatically (tho worked fine). On the other hand, my Fujitsu when brought to my work computer was never too hot. This is where I'll try to backup my data (and this is where I am now). I think, ATA mode is the reason (@home I've got ATA66 max, and @ work seems like there is ATA100)
Next time, get a Western Digital or to save some money, get a Maxtor drive. Yea the Maxtor is not the greatest either, but they are 10,000 times more reliable than Fujitsu's.
I would be glad to buy WD 800JB, but I couldn't find it around here in my town. There were only Seagates. I've got ST380011A 80GB device now.
Actually rjohnstone, you would want to get a Seagate more than anything. They are the best quality. I would suggest this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822148015 Its only 4 dollars more than the 40gb if you can believe it, worth the extra 4 dollars lol.
Seagates are not bad, but I've had mixed results when working with them in the past.
I actualy have a 40GB Maxtor that I bought as a temporary drive 3 years ago and it's still running strong with no issues.
My primary is a WD 120GB and it's performance has been perfect.