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ZarathustraDK
April 18th, 2009, 09:47 PM
My harddisk just bought it... :(

Click...click...Bad sectors...click...kernel panic...

Oh well, it was only my system disk, not my storage.

Getting a VelociRaptor on monday :D

Jaunty oughtta be fast on that :popcorn:

Eisenwinter
April 18th, 2009, 11:21 PM
so this hard disk is brand new, and yet it died immediately?

Chemical Imbalance
April 18th, 2009, 11:22 PM
What model and where did you get it from? Did you have a warranty?

MysticGold04
April 18th, 2009, 11:29 PM
Yeah, I'd be getting a replacement if its brand new. I wont buy any drives but seagate now. WD and Maxtor seem to have lost quality over the last few years. Funny, cuz I used to think that Seagate was junk.

tom66
April 18th, 2009, 11:30 PM
I think by "just bought it" he means it died...

az
April 18th, 2009, 11:42 PM
My harddisk just bought it... :(

Click...click...Bad sectors...click...kernel panic...

Oh well, it was only my system disk, not my storage.

Getting a VelociRaptor on monday :D

Jaunty oughtta be fast on that :popcorn:

If it boots far enough for you to get to a kernel panic, there is a chance you can recover your data from it.

Do you have anything on it worth rescuing?

http://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org

pwnst*r
April 18th, 2009, 11:56 PM
it's not new folks. good thing storage is dirt cheap.

ZarathustraDK
April 19th, 2009, 12:05 AM
Ah well it was pretty new, about a month or so. I was pretty lucky in regards to it failing though I think, I got like a week or so forewarning (had to reset the power like 20 times before it'd boot into Ubuntu). So I got all the data transferred to my storage disks. Heck, the thing I'll miss the most is my fstab-file :D

I think the harddisk in question was a WD800AAJS or something along those lines, an 80 gig one.

It was a strange error though. I could boot (after many resets), and then it rn quite slow (transfer-rates was close to usb-1 speeds). Perhaps one of the read-heads had bitten the dust or something.

Anyway, I'll RMA it when I get the velociraptor, then I'll use the RMA-one in my old comp :)