not a good impression for Western Digital Harddrives

[benny3t3]

Well, apparently my hungry hard drive ate my windows...
time to try linux! (Well, let's see if the thing can even install this without overheating)
This has been so aggravating! I do have another harddrive but it is quite old...

...rawr....

[benny3t3]

It is running faster now that I took the drive out of the tower... it is a hot hardrive

nope... sigh.

[benny3t3]

I don't quite know what you mean... so there is a 50% chance that this will sound stupid, but I never tried to install mac os on a harddrive, and I never put Mac software on it.

[benny3t3]

"S.M.A.R.T. status bad
and
input/output errors

[dcx2]

Bad SMART status means the HDD is dead.  Time for a new drive.

[benny3t3]

Yeah, I googled it, I guess I can use this old one,

Is there really no use at all for the dead hard drive?

[dcx2]

They make pretty colors if you burn them in a fire.  But don't breathe the smoke...the source of those pretty colors is toxic.   ;D

There's a small chance you can read some data from the hard drive still.  So you may be able to salvage some stuff that was there.  Is it a laptop hard drive?

[Link]

If the SMART status of the drive is bad.. well: yes, time to get a new one! You may have chances of reading it though. SMART status is a quite good way to determine if your drive is still fully functional! I once had a case of bad SMART status where essentially over 99% of the drive were still readable, so that I could backup most of my data. What you can try:

a) Get a new one!
b) Leave this drive as secondary drive in your PC!
c what you can copy!  ;D

[Nuke]

They have always seemed pretty decent to me when I've used them. It is probably faulty, I would send it back for a replacement.

[benny3t3]

it's a desktop hard drive, 40 GB

I'm really just more upset about losing Windows XP, I rarely have any money, and I got this computer from someone else with the OS already on it.

Any tips on getting that data out of there? (is it possible to put the OS on to another hard drive by copying files?)

Could I really get a free\discounted replacement?

[dcx2]

Wow, 40 GB?  That's pretty old...

I doubt you could get a discount.  But if you get another hard drive and install Windows on it, you can put the bad hard drive in too and read from it while running Windows from the new hdd.

If you need the key for Windows XP, there may be a way to extract it from the old hdd, but you'd need to google.

[benny3t3]

Yeah... this one I'm running linux with... it has 20 GB

to google!

[benny3t3]

I think first I will try cleaning the contacts on the hard drive, then I'll try a recovery software...

[Nuke]

There is only one solution to this

[benny3t3]

That made me laugh, thanks nuke!
Yep, it's dead all right.

I even froze it

Now my question is will USB Gecko and WiiRD work with windows 7 or vista?

please don't answer here, I am starting a new thread in the USB Gecko category of teh forum.

Plus, this one is getting long

http://wiird.l0nk.org/forum/index.php/topic,6983.0.html