Interesting how it sort of sounds like the infamous deskstar reallocation sound and how it has evolved over later models. My first experience of the dreaded deskstar scratch of death was with a 30GB 75GXP. It still seems to do its seek test and benchmarks and HD motion. Probably because it's just seeking and not reading or writing data ?
Windows corrupting immediately sounds exactly the way my Seagate ST3850A and Conner CFA270A died. The Seagate ran 98SE literally once on a Jetway 7BXAN. Any subsequent access to it would result in corrupt and garbled text while doing DIR command. The Conner literally lost access to ANY of its sectors, to the point where it's a miracle it completes seek test. NONE (I repeat, NONE!) of the sectors are repairable nor accessible in any way or form.
Honestly quite amazed that Conner managed to do anything after that! I have a Conner-design Medalist that somehow also does its seek-test with a missing head, so they can really be quite weird with continuing to initialise while being useless. That ST3850A is quite a shame! It's a bit like this IBM! It installed, but as soon as I started to do anything it was all garbled & a restart killed the whole installation. Well, I guess they tried their best...
Shame about the sudden health decline this one had. I'm not sure why but the older Deskstar drives I don't often get in working condition, they just must be a bit more fragile. I do feel that in terms of durability if they are banged around the heads get damaged easily, but maybe that is just assumption. At least this one works well enough for a video, hope your luck fairs better next time. Still looks really nice physically speaking.
Ironically all my 40GVs and 75GXPs work but every time I got a DTTA or DAQA they arrived broken. Quite the irony considering these DAQA back in their time were actually a solid drive to own and were reliable as well. Always nice to see an older Deskstar around : ))
interesting when it spins down, the motor starts slowing down, then 2 seconds later the heads park. weird, maybe the HGA bearing has failed i some way causing it to bind sometimes? who knows.
What usually fails with these? I have one from October 1996 in a nice Dell Dimension Pentium 200 non MMX that a coworker gave me 15 years ago. We played on it a lot then shelved it for several years and went to play on it again and PC would not boot. Connecting it to a SATA to IDE adapter disk management shows no media and it doesn't make any sounds. We had a TON of Quake mods on it that we cannot recover. =(
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Interesting how it sort of sounds like the infamous deskstar reallocation sound and how it has evolved over later models. My first experience of the dreaded deskstar scratch of death was with a 30GB 75GXP. It still seems to do its seek test and benchmarks and HD motion. Probably because it's just seeking and not reading or writing data ?
Oh no, the dreadful IBM bad sector "grinding" sound. Bummer that this drive is in such poor shape
Windows corrupting immediately sounds exactly the way my Seagate ST3850A and Conner CFA270A died.
The Seagate ran 98SE literally once on a Jetway 7BXAN. Any subsequent access to it would result in corrupt and garbled text while doing DIR command.
The Conner literally lost access to ANY of its sectors, to the point where it's a miracle it completes seek test. NONE (I repeat, NONE!) of the sectors are repairable nor accessible in any way or form.
Honestly quite amazed that Conner managed to do anything after that! I have a Conner-design Medalist that somehow also does its seek-test with a missing head, so they can really be quite weird with continuing to initialise while being useless.
That ST3850A is quite a shame! It's a bit like this IBM! It installed, but as soon as I started to do anything it was all garbled & a restart killed the whole installation. Well, I guess they tried their best...
That’s one sick drive :(
Cool sound and IBM hard drive)
Check the headstack connection for problems
Shame about the sudden health decline this one had. I'm not sure why but the older Deskstar drives I don't often get in working condition, they just must be a bit more fragile. I do feel that in terms of durability if they are banged around the heads get damaged easily, but maybe that is just assumption. At least this one works well enough for a video, hope your luck fairs better next time. Still looks really nice physically speaking.
I like the spindle motor sounds but this behaves pretty much like a DeathStar!
Ironically all my 40GVs and 75GXPs work but every time I got a DTTA or DAQA they arrived broken. Quite the irony considering these DAQA back in their time were actually a solid drive to own and were reliable as well. Always nice to see an older Deskstar around : ))
interesting when it spins down, the motor starts slowing down, then 2 seconds later the heads park. weird, maybe the HGA bearing has failed i some way causing it to bind sometimes? who knows.
IBM drives always sound so... industrial? Literally sounds like its really trying to get that data
What usually fails with these? I have one from October 1996 in a nice Dell Dimension Pentium 200 non MMX that a coworker gave me 15 years ago. We played on it a lot then shelved it for several years and went to play on it again and PC would not boot. Connecting it to a SATA to IDE adapter disk management shows no media and it doesn't make any sounds. We had a TON of Quake mods on it that we cannot recover. =(
Does the drive spin up and initialise?
hard disk sound
i agree
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What is a mhhd scan of this drive?
MHDD is a DOS utility used to scan drives.
@@XLGaming i think he means what it does, it scans for slow and bad sectors
clearly not the happiest of drives. That spinrite benchmark is horrid!