Hard Drive fails

[mikflan]

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.

[Alan_152]

Have all the drives been the same brand?

[mikflan]

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

[Alan_152]

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?

[mikflan]

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

[Alan_152]

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.

[D H Sherman]

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