Death of a hard drive

[B G]

Symptoms of hard drive about to die:

Computer would not wake from sleep- emitted a two  beep tone every few 
seconds(not sure why)

After shut down unable to restart, Flashing question mark on screen

After booting from CD no hard visible to disk utilities.

At this point i thought i was hosed.

Left the computer alone for a few hours and tried restart,  it booted 
but the hard drive was making a horrible  sound like rubbing to metal 
discs together

Was able to pull the important data. I am assuming that it will not 
last long.

Shut down and am hoping I can get another restart. Not going to try 
until I am ready to copy the drive.


Now for the suckie part even though the hard drive is still under 
warranty. According to the sticker on it.

Maxtor says that because it is an OEM drive Apple is responsible  for 
all warranty. Of course as the machine is over 3 years old no joy from 
Apple

On a side note the new warranty period for all hard drives is now 1 
year per Maxtor Support.

On Jun 14, 2004, at 7:08 PM, patdart wrote:

> Brian,
>
> What are the symptoms for the rest of us.  A guru friend of mine told 
> me last night that about 3 years is normal life span and I've had mine 
> replaced with a larger one, but the old one is my 'buddy' still and 
> I'm wondering how to know the 'death symptoms' rather than the 'sudden 
> death' symptoms.
>
> Pat
> On Monday, June 14, 2004, at 05:25 PM, Joost van de Griek wrote:
>
>> On 2004-06-14 19:44, Brian wrote:
>>
>>> I have a hard drive that is dieing a slow painfull death.  I have
>>> backed up the important stuff.
>
>
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