The sound of the harddrive trying it's best to work is almost musical. I would imagine if this was your only computer back in the day the sound would be nerve racking, considering the situation it's kind of nice.
Awesome! Another uxwbill computer video! The hard drives were toast to begin with so why not have some fun? Great hearing your voice again talking about computers Bill. Even if it was a silly video on dead hard drives. I hope we seem more computer related videos from you in the near future.
oh hey when you posted the other video about hard drives and i had this on my smartphone i was watching it and my wife thought my daughter was doing something with all that beeping noise lol
That one drive at the 11 minute mark, sounds just like the noise that often came out of working IBM 3370 DASD units.... Probably the best thing to do with those drives, is take them apart, remove the platters and use them as drink coasters..... BTW with all the floods you seem to get, I wouldn't put anything on the floor, get a couple of old pallets, take of the middle bottom boards, and nail them on top to give a full surface. Dig a sump pit down there, then add two sump pumps, one mounted about 4" above the other, so when water starts to collect, it drains into the pit, so the bottom pump can clear it out, if there gets enough water to fire the upper pump, it will boost the first.
Nice channel. I was checking out a refrigerator video of yours and ended up watching many of your computer videos.. way to reel this nerd in. Subscribed!
Certainly a rather interesting choice of a solid state drive at the end there, both by the looks and by the design. Typically my mind would shoot to something like a PATA to CompactFlash adapter. In fact that’s what I’ve done with a Dell Latitude CP laptop computer of mine. Edit: and I was pretty close with my estimate of a Dell Dimension 2400/3000 in your previous video, I, for some unknown reason, really do like those worthless socket 478 Mitac Dell Dimension machines.
Disk on modules are fun. That's how I describe em. They don't have too much purpose, however I did have a Compaq running Puppy with one of them disk on modules as the boot drive.
Not even an agp slot, yep that ones a boat anchor! I had a higher up model at one time. Tried turning it into a retro gaming machine and see what it could do. Recapped board, everything worked great, ran a game with some artifacting, some of the weirdest I seen and when benchmarking the computer shut down completely. Turns out the chipset cooked since I was asking a lot of it with a 3.2ghz Prescott, 4gb of 410mhz OCZ memory, and a Ati 4650 Ice-Q 512mb. Threw everything on a Intel D845PBZ (The black pcb high end motherboard that was "nos" on eBay :D ) and it worked flawlessly. Wish I would have kept the system but I sold it a few years back. The graphics card and motherboard are actually quite expensive now.
I think I've got a WD800 like the one in this video. It was in my Dell Dimension E310 that I used for years as a kid. It's got about 30-40k hours on it, no issues whatsoever. There's also a WD400BB with 100k hours, about 11 years. It's a 15 year old drive, too! Very few power cycles
@@uxwbill I've had one WD drive fail. It was a 500GB Blue, and to be honest I have no idea what happened. It could have been a PBCAK issue of some sort, or maybe the drive itself was bad. It never saw much use, which just adds to the mystery.
I have a WD Scorpio Blue 640GB from 2012 that I found in an old, broken laptop, and get surprised at this. It has over 2.3 million load/unload cycle counts on it. I am absolutely shocked and stunned that this drive still works today, although I wouldn't consider it safe to use at all anymore. That's just waaaayyy over the 600,000 cycle rating that this drive was rated for. Of course it's the stupid APM function that parks the heads after 2 seconds of inactivity that has led to this. It has 0 bad & 0 reallocated sectors, too. Although, the head park 'click' noise that this hard drive makes just sounds awful now, sounds as if the head park mechanism is extremely worn or something.
I have a very similar drive to the WD800 shown in the video, a WD1200 which the difference is it has a capacity of 120 GB instead of 80. It is a replacement drive to a Maxtor 80 GB drive from my mothers Dell Dimension 4400 which had gotten corrupted. As far as I can remember the WD1200 still works with no issues whatsoever even after 12 years, the Maxtor drive I am not sure about and even if it did work it would probably fail soon anyway given Maxtors reputation.
I had a hard drive in a trash picked laptop and it developed a clicking hard drive. I hit the left side of the laptop where the drive was with my fist and that made it work long enough to copy off all the files I wanted. Then I changed it out and reloaded windows and all is good. You should turn that musical hard drive into a speaker.
The Western Digital Aqua range 'Wetter than a wet thing.' At least the machine survived :-D They always seemed a slow drive to me, reliable enough but slow.
Praying for you my friend. I hope things imporve for you soon. I hope all goes well for you. I wish you the very best. God bless you my friend. God loves you.
@@uxwbill Thanks. After posting the question, I found something similar on Amazon, with varying capacities. www.amazon.com/Kingspec-44PIN-Module-Network-Gaming/dp/B00J3M67GC/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1549253892&sr=8-6&keywords=ide+solid+state+drive
I've never ever seen one of those! I wonder what that would have cost back in the day when IDE was the standard? That's the first IDE SSD of that type I'd ever laid eyes on actually.
I have performed these techniques myself many times over the years, sometimes yes it will free the motor. I have heard a lot of failed drivers before but these 2 drives have a particular note to them I have not heard before.
Ah dead HDDs, always good for a bit of fun before slinging them out... :D And that little PATA SSD looks pretty neat, if I had something that really needed one, I'd probably get one (my Olivetti Pentium75 is about the only thing with PATA that would suit such an SSD, but it's not really needed as even with a mechanical drive it starts up into 98SE faster than Windows 10!)... :D
Here's why some drive manufacturers have decided to move the head parking position from the platter hub to the spreaders outside the disk spindle: To avoid the heads sticking on the platters.
i never had a hard drive fail unless it was my laptop drive from trying to save laptop from dropping and it didnt work one bang and the Toshiba drive was clicking. other then that ive had good luck . but also only hard drive that gets used alot is my laptop im on now the same Toshiba but with a different H.D. western digital black.. i also just got an email im sure you did as well bill. google plus is now being deleted for some by April. anyway hope weather gets better for yall out in midwest
Well Bill you tried. Is that the computer you fixed the on board VGA with your data hammer? Glad to see you didn`t freeze from the Polar Vortex. Thanks for the video
No, that was a Dimension 2400 I found in a recycling bin at the hamfest. That one is still in fairly regular use, running Windows 2000 with unofficial updates.
Hey I almost guessed that model number correctly! EDIT: Looks like I almost guessed the drives too! I've been doing this too long. When you say studio computers, do you still run a show on Vaughn live, or is it somewhere else now? PS is this the same 2350 that used to run that show? PPS So sorry to hear your basement flooded again. Wish things like that were more preventable.
It's very rare that I do any live streams any longer. I don't announce them any longer because I was tired of attracting every Internet Twelve-Year-Old in the world who thought I wanted to be their personal technical support hotline.
All the 40GB and 80GB IDE drives that I have had from that era are gone. they are dead and any an all tests I could attempt to revive them have failed. Putting them in the freezer and immediately starting them up which has miraculously worked only once in the past for me. These modern days any sata drive I have has died because the Error Recovery Space runs out. I use my drives until they die.
Quick obscure question regarding these Dell computers (the kind with the goofy smile, like the 3x/4x/5x/etc.): Did these computers ever come with sample songs different than that of Windows XP's default sample music? I remember years ago having a Dell of that sort and there being 3 sample songs on it which I had never seen on any XP installation before (Dynamite Walls, The Best Of Us and Surely Justice) which were all eMusic labelled. Have you ever come across these when browsing around on any of those Dell computers, and do you happen to know where they would've came from? There's nothing online about them being XP sample music, but my guess would be some sort of partnership between Dell and eMusic at the time. Also, believe it or not, I've never had a hard drive fail on me before. At least not in a computer I've used.
The Many ways of slamming HD Head, the 100 Ways to Help Kill a HD.., Just Crack it open and Give it a SPIN..Yumy Alumin Crud..And Blew them Head Clean Off..
Im guessing that utility mode thing is trying to find a hidden partition on the drive or talk to Dell's custom MBR they used to put on their factory XP installs
I have had a western digital drive do that to me once . It turns out that the sectors of the drive went bad after being contaminated by a cup of tea was spilled on my laptop. slowly but surely the hard drive died.
Hey uxwbill. How do you get images on what's on any dead hard drives? :) How possible do you think it may be to copy things like Documents, music files, photos, videos, & anything else important from a dead hard drive? :)
If it did anything, it'd hasten the failure of the drive. Even in an older drive like this, the read/write head assemblies float at a distance thinner than that of a human hair or even a smoke particle. (Both are giants compared to that distance.)
The sound of the harddrive trying it's best to work is almost musical. I would imagine if this was your only computer back in the day the sound would be nerve racking, considering the situation it's kind of nice.
Awe, I was waiting for "smoke test!!!" :)
That solid state drive is called a "Disk On Module", for anyone interested. :)
I still can't get over the noise that things makes lol. Cracks me up for some reason.
Best and funniest "hdd repair" video I have ever seen! Keep it up with your weirdness!
I never thought that a fan could make that sound. Reminds me of the farting water cooler that my uncle has.
I legitimately thought there is a giant cricket that's about to hunt you down initially, until you said it was a dried up fan with a faulty bearing
Awesome! Another uxwbill computer video! The hard drives were toast to begin with so why not have some fun? Great hearing your voice again talking about computers Bill. Even if it was a silly video on dead hard drives. I hope we seem more computer related videos from you in the near future.
Haha, loved that "buzzsaw" at the end there! Definitely a way to get things done the uxwbill way!
This is the first time I have not skipped a couple seconds in a video in like a couple months, you got my respect.
oh hey when you posted the other video about hard drives and i had this on my smartphone i was watching it and my wife thought my daughter was doing something with all that beeping noise lol
Truly savage. Kudos for putting more effort into it then I would have.
That one drive at the 11 minute mark, sounds just like the noise that often came out of working IBM 3370 DASD units.... Probably the best thing to do with those drives, is take them apart, remove the platters and use them as drink coasters..... BTW with all the floods you seem to get, I wouldn't put anything on the floor, get a couple of old pallets, take of the middle bottom boards, and nail them on top to give a full surface. Dig a sump pit down there, then add two sump pumps, one mounted about 4" above the other, so when water starts to collect, it drains into the pit, so the bottom pump can clear it out, if there gets enough water to fire the upper pump, it will boost the first.
Nice channel. I was checking out a refrigerator video of yours and ended up watching many of your computer videos.. way to reel this nerd in. Subscribed!
I do hope you'll continue to enjoy what you see. Please do feel free to comment any time.
Certainly a rather interesting choice of a solid state drive at the end there, both by the looks and by the design. Typically my mind would shoot to something like a PATA to CompactFlash adapter. In fact that’s what I’ve done with a Dell Latitude CP laptop computer of mine.
Edit: and I was pretty close with my estimate of a Dell Dimension 2400/3000 in your previous video, I, for some unknown reason, really do like those worthless socket 478 Mitac Dell Dimension machines.
Disk on modules are fun. That's how I describe em. They don't have too much purpose, however I did have a Compaq running Puppy with one of them disk on modules as the boot drive.
Its sad how many times ive done this to dead drives🤣🤦♀️
Bill it's been so long since UA-cam recommended me one of your videos and the sound quality... Oh lord it's amazing!
I'm inclined to believe it's aluminum oxide that you're seeing there. The drive's probably corroded to the point that it's seizing the spindle motor.
📞 Hello computer protection services? I'd like to report a uxwbill for hard drive abuse.
😂😂😂😂
Not even an agp slot, yep that ones a boat anchor! I had a higher up model at one time. Tried turning it into a retro gaming machine and see what it could do. Recapped board, everything worked great, ran a game with some artifacting, some of the weirdest I seen and when benchmarking the computer shut down completely. Turns out the chipset cooked since I was asking a lot of it with a 3.2ghz Prescott, 4gb of 410mhz OCZ memory, and a Ati 4650 Ice-Q 512mb. Threw everything on a Intel D845PBZ (The black pcb high end motherboard that was "nos" on eBay :D ) and it worked flawlessly. Wish I would have kept the system but I sold it a few years back. The graphics card and motherboard are actually quite expensive now.
A new uxwbill's *COMPUTER* video in FULL HD?? Yes, please!
I'm sorry to hear about your floods. I hope almost everything could be saved... should you need help with anything, don't hesitate to ask.
yeah, you could start by cleaning the shitter.....
I think I've got a WD800 like the one in this video. It was in my Dell Dimension E310 that I used for years as a kid. It's got about 30-40k hours on it, no issues whatsoever. There's also a WD400BB with 100k hours, about 11 years. It's a 15 year old drive, too! Very few power cycles
Almost all of those Athlon XP whiteboxes I have are still running their original WD800 drives. Only two ever failed.
@@uxwbill I've had one WD drive fail. It was a 500GB Blue, and to be honest I have no idea what happened. It could have been a PBCAK issue of some sort, or maybe the drive itself was bad. It never saw much use, which just adds to the mystery.
@@uxwbill I have several pair of these, all working. also have a few of the 40gb version of these, it was rare to see one of these that had failed
I have a WD Scorpio Blue 640GB from 2012 that I found in an old, broken laptop, and get surprised at this. It has over 2.3 million load/unload cycle counts on it. I am absolutely shocked and stunned that this drive still works today, although I wouldn't consider it safe to use at all anymore. That's just waaaayyy over the 600,000 cycle rating that this drive was rated for. Of course it's the stupid APM function that parks the heads after 2 seconds of inactivity that has led to this. It has 0 bad & 0 reallocated sectors, too. Although, the head park 'click' noise that this hard drive makes just sounds awful now, sounds as if the head park mechanism is extremely worn or something.
I have a very similar drive to the WD800 shown in the video, a WD1200 which the difference is it has a capacity of 120 GB instead of 80. It is a replacement drive to a Maxtor 80 GB drive from my mothers Dell Dimension 4400 which had gotten corrupted. As far as I can remember the WD1200 still works with no issues whatsoever even after 12 years, the Maxtor drive I am not sure about and even if it did work it would probably fail soon anyway given Maxtors reputation.
I had a hard drive in a trash picked laptop and it developed a clicking hard drive. I hit the left side of the laptop where the drive was with my fist and that made it work long enough to copy off all the files I wanted. Then I changed it out and reloaded windows and all is good.
You should turn that musical hard drive into a speaker.
The voice coil is surprisingly amusing to play with.
The Western Digital Aqua range 'Wetter than a wet thing.'
At least the machine survived :-D
They always seemed a slow drive to me, reliable enough but slow.
I bet "utility mode" just loads the factory recovery software from the backup partition.
One of the only good things i can say about the clam shell version of the Dell Dimension, is that the hard drives come out easier than these ones.
Praying for you my friend. I hope things imporve for you soon. I hope all goes well for you. I wish you the very best. God bless you my friend. God loves you.
GOOD GRIEF!!! That little drive with the IDE connector in it... WHERE did you get it?
eBay is an amazing place.
@@uxwbill
Thanks. After posting the question, I found something similar on Amazon, with varying capacities.
www.amazon.com/Kingspec-44PIN-Module-Network-Gaming/dp/B00J3M67GC/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1549253892&sr=8-6&keywords=ide+solid+state+drive
I could use something like this, but with larger capacity. I have a FireStore FS100 which badly needs a drive upgrade.
@@bakonfreek
Did you check on the Amazon link? One of them, while nothing today, is still a pretty good size.
That made no sense, did it? 8)
I've never ever seen one of those! I wonder what that would have cost back in the day when IDE was the standard? That's the first IDE SSD of that type I'd ever laid eyes on actually.
I have performed these techniques myself many times over the years, sometimes yes it will free the motor. I have heard a lot of failed drivers before but these 2 drives have a particular note to them I have not heard before.
I don't think I'll be sending any hard drives your way for data recovery. :p
Ah dead HDDs, always good for a bit of fun before slinging them out... :D
And that little PATA SSD looks pretty neat, if I had something that really needed one, I'd probably get one (my Olivetti Pentium75 is about the only thing with PATA that would suit such an SSD, but it's not really needed as even with a mechanical drive it starts up into 98SE faster than Windows 10!)... :D
Here's why some drive manufacturers have decided to move the head parking position from the platter hub to the spreaders outside the disk spindle: To avoid the heads sticking on the platters.
This is the result of flood damage, something a ramp-load design cannot solve.
i never had a hard drive fail unless it was my laptop drive from trying to save laptop from dropping and it didnt work one bang and the Toshiba drive was clicking. other then that ive had good luck . but also only hard drive that gets used alot is my laptop im on now the same Toshiba but with a different H.D. western digital black.. i also just got an email im sure you did as well bill. google plus is now being deleted for some by April. anyway hope weather gets better for yall out in midwest
well I was close lol, though a 2350 wasn't that much different from a 2300 imho.
uxwbill do you use a water expansion tank in your household?
I had Guessed it right on the first video
They rock.
Well Bill you tried. Is that the computer you fixed the on board VGA with your data hammer? Glad to see you didn`t freeze from the Polar Vortex. Thanks for the video
No, that was a Dimension 2400 I found in a recycling bin at the hamfest. That one is still in fairly regular use, running Windows 2000 with unofficial updates.
Hey I almost guessed that model number correctly!
EDIT: Looks like I almost guessed the drives too! I've been doing this too long.
When you say studio computers, do you still run a show on Vaughn live, or is it somewhere else now?
PS is this the same 2350 that used to run that show?
PPS So sorry to hear your basement flooded again. Wish things like that were more preventable.
It's very rare that I do any live streams any longer. I don't announce them any longer because I was tired of attracting every Internet Twelve-Year-Old in the world who thought I wanted to be their personal technical support hotline.
All the 40GB and 80GB IDE drives that I have had from that era are gone. they are dead and any an all tests I could attempt to revive them have failed. Putting them in the freezer and immediately starting them up which has miraculously worked only once in the past for me. These modern days any sata drive I have has died because the Error Recovery Space runs out. I use my drives until they die.
It sounds like a lawnmower lmao
Some musical genius on You tube ought to take the sound of uxwbill's dead hard drives and make a techno pop song out of it.
"specimen..." LOL
Quick obscure question regarding these Dell computers (the kind with the goofy smile, like the 3x/4x/5x/etc.): Did these computers ever come with sample songs different than that of Windows XP's default sample music? I remember years ago having a Dell of that sort and there being 3 sample songs on it which I had never seen on any XP installation before (Dynamite Walls, The Best Of Us and Surely Justice) which were all eMusic labelled. Have you ever come across these when browsing around on any of those Dell computers, and do you happen to know where they would've came from? There's nothing online about them being XP sample music, but my guess would be some sort of partnership between Dell and eMusic at the time.
Also, believe it or not, I've never had a hard drive fail on me before. At least not in a computer I've used.
Bill did this old Dell have Windows XP on it
Probably.
@@uxwbill I like you're Computer videos im a computer person just like you
crickets!!
Well, at least you can say you tried.
Who doesn't love some random hard drive destruction?
The Many ways of slamming HD Head, the 100 Ways to Help Kill a HD.., Just Crack it open and Give it a SPIN..Yumy Alumin Crud..And Blew them Head Clean Off..
Water got to them before I did. I felt bad about losing two of my PATA drives, but I have plenty left.
@@uxwbill I so Hate to See that you would do with a bunch of 80-PIN U-SCSI 4 GB 10K Drives..
Im guessing that utility mode thing is trying to find a hidden partition on the drive or talk to Dell's custom MBR they used to put on their factory XP installs
I have had a western digital drive do that to me once . It turns out that the sectors of the drive went bad after being contaminated by a cup of tea was spilled on my laptop. slowly but surely the hard drive died.
Harddrives have very strong magnets inside
Hey uxwbill. How do you get images on what's on any dead hard drives? :) How possible do you think it may be to copy things like Documents, music files, photos, videos, & anything else important from a dead hard drive? :)
With all due respect, you can research this yourself. I am not a search engine nor a personal provider of technical support.
Where did you get that small IDE SSD?
It came from some random eBay listing several years ago. It responds as a "Hyperstone Flash Disk" when queried.
@@uxwbill OK thanks looks like it could be very useful, hope to see a video on what your going to do with that 2350:)
It's very unlikely there will be a video. I'm experimenting with VPNs in pfSense. I've never really done much with them before.
@@uxwbill Might be interesting if you do end up making a video at some point.
The big question is, did you run Scandisc Antifrag?
you have me wondering now if you did take the side off and blow the crap out of the inside what would it do
If it did anything, it'd hasten the failure of the drive. Even in an older drive like this, the read/write head assemblies float at a distance thinner than that of a human hair or even a smoke particle. (Both are giants compared to that distance.)
Lol it vibrated the hard drive moved
rad
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I honestly don’t like WD or Seagate drives at all. If you want something that will last, get a Toshiba or Hitachi HDD.