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Hard Drive fails

mikflan — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:24:31 GMT

Are there any known isues with the Pavillion DV8000 notebook causing Hard Drive Failures? I am on my fourth hard drive in less than 2 years.

Re: Hard Drive fails

Alan_152 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:50:27 GMT

Have all the drives been the same brand?

Re: Hard Drive fails

mikflan — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:36:20 GMT

Two were Hitachi, I can not remember the orginal drive and this last one is a Western digital.

Re: Hard Drive fails

Alan_152 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:10:15 GMT

OK, that rules out my 1st recommendation (getting an off-brand replacement). What have been the symptoms of each of the failures? Has any of the data been recoverable?

Re: Hard Drive fails

mikflan — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:49:58 GMT

Bad sectors in the first two the last drive
only clicked and had no recoverable info.

Re: Hard Drive fails

Alan_152 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:58:17 GMT

Its kind of hard to say, then, what the root cause is. For the 1st two drives it could be either manufacturing or head crashes. The 3rd drive indicates a head being ripped off the tonearm.

I'd say for this particular model you'd want to shut down the unit and let the drive lock before moving the unit. Sorry I can't give any better advice.

Re: Hard Drive fails

D H Sherman — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:03:13 GMT

I would look at getting a copy of Spinrite.
also hard drives usually fail when the drives are overheated.