[linux-help] Re: HD trouble

[Nathan <ncozzens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you all for the advice.  I did manage to get all 
my music files and conf files off the bad HD.  It 
shouldn't be too hard to get it all up and running 
again on a new HD.

Nate

At 01:56 AM 9/4/01 -0500, you wrote:

>Jeff Vian wrote:
> > The whistling followed by the sudden large number 
> of bad blocks probably
> > means a head crash.
> > I would warrant the drive just for peace of mind.
>
>i don't know about whistling, but when my drive(s) (5 
>total) went bad, i
>heard this nasty aaaa....aaaaa....aaaaa....aaaa when 
>accessing some
>files...  now and then if i listened carefully, it 
>would sound like a pin
>or something hitting against metal (i was told it was 
>likely to be the
>head hitting the hdd shell)...  and of course the 
>number of bad sectors
>went up exponentially!  scandisk (in dos) showed 
>filenames with smiley
>faces and carriage returns!  personally, i agree w/ 
>everyone else...  if
>it's under warranty, why not?  will save the 
>possibility of data loss and
>the cost of a new drive if you wait until the 
>warranty expires (if it's
>any time soon)...
>
>good luck!
>-------------------------
>  Jesse (gLaNDix) Kaufman
>  glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  http://lloydix.2y.net
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