I had a IBM 75GXP 30GB drive that failed a few months back due to the unfortunate, but expected failure known for that series. I remember running the Drive Fitness Test software right when the crash happened and the drive was essentially unreadable and effectively unusable. Just for the heck of it, I tried the DFT software recently and was able to low-level format the drive and found no errors. If a head did crash earlier, then this drive will fail again and the data will be hard to retrieve, if at all. So, I am not going to use it for anything that would be a big deal if/when the hard drive crashes again. I put it in my G3 Tower and reformatted it and ran several Mac drive utilities and again found no errors. I have left it in the G3 and am currently using it as temporary storage for creating ISO’s to burn to a CD later.
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I just had one of these crash on me too! UGH. Didn’t have a backup of some of the stuff on there… I’m saving the drive for when I’m rich and can pay someone a few grand to recover whatever was on there…
Shouldn’t you ditch the drive now?