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Originally Posted by rowan
I have a Deskstar 60Gb from October 2001. It never did the click of death, but one day a huge number of sectors (like 30-40%) suddenly went bad. Through some research it appears that it's a firmware bug that energises the write head WHILE IT IS MOVING ACROSS THE PLATTER. 
All data was lost because every track had multiple sectors corrupted.
The real kick in the teeth is that after using an IBM low level format utility it works just fine. I doubt I'll ever use it again because I don't know when/if it's going to spray whiteout over my data. For now it's sitting in plastic a HD carrier doing nothing... |
Man... I had the SAME thing happen with the Deskstar 60GB! I managed to recover all my data though by using a program called HDD Regenerator (took about 24 hours for it to finish, but it brought back all the sectors except for about a dozen). All the other deskstar drives I had were utter crap as well, but the 60gb dtla-307060 seemed to be the worst. I don't store anything critical on it anymore but I do keep all my MAME games on there, no harm if that stuff gets deleted.