2006-11-06 14:35:10 · 5 answers · asked by Sean Y 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
There are tons of reasons for hard drive failure. But you should note that the data you don't have at least two copies is the data you don't care about. You can prevent any bad consequences of hdd failure either using backup software for example True Image by Acronis or using RAID 1 array of hard drives.
2006-11-08 23:39:53 · answer #1 · answered by S&H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Electronic component failure in the drive electronics or top layer assembly, electrostatic, old age and chance failures. Oil leaking out of the bearings and onto the disk surface. Mechanical damage due to shock. Head crashes (where the head hits the disk surface) due to shock or foreign matter between the heads and the disk, there are filters and such, but sometimes something does get in there. Heads falling off, Dell had some issues with that a few years ago. Mechanical failure of the bearings. Wires coming adrift. Flex circuit boards flexing once too often.
Old drives used to have very little temperature margin, we used to find that if our Digital RD53 and RD54 (71 and 149Mb drives that cost about $5k and $8k each back in the 80s) drives got too hot they would fail, if they cooled too fast they would also fail, pretty fragile by modern standards.
2006-11-06 14:45:50 · answer #2 · answered by Chris H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
either a bug or its just ol i would boot it in safe mode (to do this keep pressing F-8 over and over) then back up the computer either by floopy or a mass storage device (got a 160GB for under $100 u could back up hundreds of computers w/ that much)
2006-11-06 14:40:44 · answer #3 · answered by migetman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything, sometimes taking them out of the store box ggrrrr!
2006-11-06 14:38:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
bad formatting and partition overload
2006-11-06 14:37:19 · answer #5 · answered by Crude 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋