broken harddisk???
 

hi

My wd1200jb is broken, i think its broken
the system doesn't detect him and it makes at "getik"
what can i do about it

i've bought it in february of this year in germany
in www.bora-computer.de
what can i do about it?

try testing it on an other machine, but I guess it's busted
contact WD for RMA

idd think it's dead. WD has good RMA service normally, have send allready 2 HD's back and without any problem got new ones..

how long does it takes till you get a new one?
and they don't make a problem of it?
don't they have to look first for damage or...
or do they send directly a new one?

greetz

first have too look off course if screws etc are still in place and then normally you get a new one. This can take up to 2 weeks I presume, depends of several things...

Try freezing it.
Won't Void Your Warranty and I've revived some drives long enough to make backups (full 80GB)
They do die eventually

how can i have my cdrom work as bootdevice? now he refuses to work with a bootcd

thx

what do you mean ?
he doesn't boot anymore from cd ?
or you want to boot from cd .

first bootdevice = cdrom in bios/

he doesn't want to boot from cd anymore :-(

that\'s the problem

when i start up, he detects for harddisk but they are not inserted, because i don\'t have any harddisk anymore.
so he goes to the cdrom boot menu

and then he says this

boot from atapi cdrom :
disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter.