WD400BB Problem.

[rekaben]

I wonder if anyone has the similar experience. Help, please.

I bought my Dell with this WD400BB (40GB) in Nov 2001. It runs quite
well through these years, until tonight. I powered it on, then heard
"CLAK-CLAK", can not boot-up. I entered the BIOS setup screen, the disk
type is unknown.

I can not believe that my WD400BB is bad, because my usage has been
very careful. But the BIOS shows that it must be bad.

What can I do anything about this disk? Can I recover any data?

Thanks.

RK

 

[Rod Speed]

I wonder if anyone has the similar experience.

Plenty have.

Help, please.

Too late for that now.

I bought my Dell with this WD400BB (40GB) in Nov 2001. It
runs quite well through these years, until tonight. I powered
it on, then heard "CLAK-CLAK", can not boot-up. I entered
the BIOS setup screen, the disk type is unknown.

I can not believe that my WD400BB is bad,

That noise indicates that it likely is.

because my usage has been very careful.

Irrelevant to why hard drives die.

But the BIOS shows that it must be bad.

Thats unlikely unless it doesnt show up
on the black bios screen at boot time.

What can I do anything about this disk?

You could try throwing at the cat.

Can I recover any data?

Not unless you are prepared to spend the sort of
money that will likely make you faint when you hear it.

 

[RK]

First, thanks.

That noise indicates that it likely is.

I mean this disk has been used for only less-than 4 year. Does the
industries make better quality disks nowadays than before? Think about
the very very old PC-XT disks I was using.

Irrelevant to why hard drives die.

There were some electric power surges in the past years, but I doubt
the PC was affected at the times.

RK

 

[Rod Speed]

First, thanks.

No problem.

I mean this disk has been used for only less-than 4 year.

There will always be some failures in the first year or two.
WD is currently seeing a higher failure rate than most.

Does the industries make better quality disks nowadays than before?

Yes, but that does not mean that there will be no failures in say 5 years.

Think about the very very old PC-XT disks I was using.

Sure, modern drives are certainly much more reliable than those were.

There were some electric power surges in the past
years, but I doubt the PC was affected at the times.

Yeah, that particular failure detail is unlikely
to have been caused by a power surge.

Some drives just die, thats why you should have backups.