Dead 60GXP HD...

[Liquid Snake]

The drive spins up but it makes a continuous clicking sound. I also tried it in my PC but it didn't work there either.

[YngwieM]

I've never recovered the data from my Deskstar also... tried to use another logical controller, ata33, everything... it just "died" from a day to another, and the bios couldn't recognize it anymore. The symptoms was very much like yours...

[SteveC]

I've only seen one really dead deskstar - an old 10Gb one from when the Deskstar name was new. It died with same symptoms - just don't spin up and isn't recognised. Went same moment the Power Supply blew up in my brother's PC Gonna try swapping controller boards tomorrow with an identical drive from work - anyone tried this yet?

On another note - I've just installed a 2nd (second hand) 60GXP (20Gb) into my PC to go alongside my 40Gb one. Currently copying 17Gb of data to it from a slow old WD drive I hate.

I love IBM!

[KeiFront]

I managed to save 19.9 Gbyte of data , altough I lost some important data (I only have backups of some data that I lost).

DFT now gives me a failure code: 0x70 defective device.
Altough SMART still says that the disk is in good condition (SMART status: good).

[The PIT]

Does it give you option to fix it. Can't remember what that code means by the way.

[MPR]

I had one die at work. Anything other than IBM looks good. I was not able to retrieve any data from the drive.

[KeiFront]

Originally posted by The PIT
Does it give you option to fix it. Can't remember what that code means by the way.

Yes, but it doesn't help or it crashes DFT. The disk is still under guarantee, hopefully I will get a replacement asap.