fried hd

[bsmithy]

I have a fried IBM 40gb hd that went belly upa few weeks ago

what can i do with it (short of throwing it)

i have tried all methods of rescuing it, and it went while i was formatting it, so theres no data left

 

[Monoman]

take it apart and salvage the super magnet...

 

[sharq]

Drill a hole into the platters so that no one can recover anything off them, ever.
I just beat the crap out of the hd's with a hammer. I don't have the tools to take a hd apart, so those that have died in the past get the hammer. It's good stress relief especially if you're ticked off at technology at any point.

 

[vansouza]

What about sending it to IBM and getting a replacement. That is what I did...

 

[Budman]

fried hd

Put some ketchup on it.

 

[bsmithy]

Originally posted by: vansouza
What about sending it to IBM and getting a replacement. That is what I did...

i don't have anything to do with it like a reciept or box or anything

it's also 2 years old, is this out of warrenty?

 

[NokiaDude]

All you have to have is the serial number off the HD, which is supposed to be on the label. I don't know about IBM but WD has a 3 year warranty on their SE drives.

 

[bsmithy]

Originally posted by: bsmithy

Originally posted by: vansouza
What about sending it to IBM and getting a replacement. That is what I did...

i don't have anything to do with it like a reciept or box or anything

it's also 2 years old, is this out of warrenty?

OMFG

Hitachi say it's under warrenty till 10.05.2004

even though it was manufactured in 2001

 

[bsmithy]

Just run the DFT from ibm and it repaired a load of errors on the disk, although it now shows up in the bios it is miss reporting the size by 6 GB.
Also it does not show up in windows explorer but it does in device manager, does anyone know how to fix this?

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: bsmithy
Just run the DFT from ibm and it repaired a load of errors on the disk, although it now shows up in the bios it is miss reporting the size by 6 GB.
Also it does not show up in windows explorer but it does in device manager, does anyone know how to fix this?

RMA

 

[bsmithy]

Originally posted by: Budman

Originally posted by: bsmithy
Just run the DFT from ibm and it repaired a load of errors on the disk, although it now shows up in the bios it is miss reporting the size by 6 GB.
Also it does not show up in windows explorer but it does in device manager, does anyone know how to fix this?

RMA

cheers, just applied for an RMA number

anyone know where to get the packing they require?

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: bsmithy

Originally posted by: Budman

Originally posted by: bsmithy
Just run the DFT from ibm and it repaired a load of errors on the disk, although it now shows up in the bios it is miss reporting the size by 6 GB.
Also it does not show up in windows explorer but it does in device manager, does anyone know how to fix this?

RMA

cheers, just applied for an RMA number

anyone know where to get the packing they require?

would a box and bubblewrap suffice?

 

[bsmithy]

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: bsmithy

Originally posted by: Budman

Originally posted by: bsmithy
Just run the DFT from ibm and it repaired a load of errors on the disk, although it now shows up in the bios it is miss reporting the size by 6 GB.
Also it does not show up in windows explorer but it does in device manager, does anyone know how to fix this?

RMA

cheers, just applied for an RMA number

anyone know where to get the packing they require?

would a box and bubblewrap suffice?

no, they want high density foam
don't think i can get this at the PO