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The dead hard drive and other stories
Jul. 28th, 2008 12:32 pmMy main storage hard drive died, just quite working. These things happen, it's an old drive, but the frustrating part is that I just got that external hard drive from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
trekkieb47 so I could back up the important stuff and it died before I could do so.
And of course that's the drive that has the stuff I don't want to lose.
All is not lost. Due to the circumstances of the failure (no noise from the drive, abruptly stopping working with no warning, no errors or instability in drive prior to failure), it was most likely that it wasn't the guts of the drive but rather the pcb board.
( Read more... )
So. The long and short of it is that I need to find a replacement board. I'm putting this out here to you guys too, because I know I am not the only one here who has a box full of computer parts and has friends with boxes of computer parts. ;)
I need either a pcb board or a refurbished drive. It's a Western Digital WD Caviar, 60gb. Here's the important part: It MUST have the part number: WD600BB-00CAA0. A different second half of the number is different firmware, meaning it won't work. If you have a dead drive of that model that was making all kinds of funny noises before it quit, I'd be willing to give it a try.
madclarinet I finally called back that site we found (http://www.com-com.co.uk) because they didn't reply. I'm wondering if I shouldn't have you call because the person I got was just AWFUL. First he said I didn't send the quote request because I didn't get an email acknowledgement (like dude, I'm CALLING because I didn't get an email acknowledgement), then I read off the code and he said "We only deal with the first set of numbers." I started to say "but I need to get one that is an exact match" and he said "you won't get it from us". I realized at this point that he was going to be less than helpful so I ended the call.
So I'm thinking maybe I ought to have YOU call because I think I ran into another asshole who heard the feminine voice and assumed I didn't know anything about computers, or maybe he just didn't like Americans or maybe he had a fight with his mother or girlfriend or something and didn't want to be at work. (number in UK: 0845 643 1180)
trekkieb47 so I could back up the important stuff and it died before I could do so.And of course that's the drive that has the stuff I don't want to lose.
All is not lost. Due to the circumstances of the failure (no noise from the drive, abruptly stopping working with no warning, no errors or instability in drive prior to failure), it was most likely that it wasn't the guts of the drive but rather the pcb board.
( Read more... )
So. The long and short of it is that I need to find a replacement board. I'm putting this out here to you guys too, because I know I am not the only one here who has a box full of computer parts and has friends with boxes of computer parts. ;)
I need either a pcb board or a refurbished drive. It's a Western Digital WD Caviar, 60gb. Here's the important part: It MUST have the part number: WD600BB-00CAA0. A different second half of the number is different firmware, meaning it won't work. If you have a dead drive of that model that was making all kinds of funny noises before it quit, I'd be willing to give it a try.
madclarinet I finally called back that site we found (http://www.com-com.co.uk) because they didn't reply. I'm wondering if I shouldn't have you call because the person I got was just AWFUL. First he said I didn't send the quote request because I didn't get an email acknowledgement (like dude, I'm CALLING because I didn't get an email acknowledgement), then I read off the code and he said "We only deal with the first set of numbers." I started to say "but I need to get one that is an exact match" and he said "you won't get it from us". I realized at this point that he was going to be less than helpful so I ended the call. So I'm thinking maybe I ought to have YOU call because I think I ran into another asshole who heard the feminine voice and assumed I didn't know anything about computers, or maybe he just didn't like Americans or maybe he had a fight with his mother or girlfriend or something and didn't want to be at work. (number in UK: 0845 643 1180)
