hard drive clicking
i have a 30gb hdd its about 4 months old and it started clicking real loud any idea what that is about?
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That's a bad signal. Back the info up now.
I had a drive start doing that and it completely failed shortly afterwards. Mine was out of warranty. :mad: I found a faq once upon a time.. BASIC HDD FAQ Rev 1.5, 6 November 2002. <snip> 06. CLICK CLICK CLICK or GRIND GRIND GRIND! Whats wrong??? Backup Your data NOW! Noises such as these means that your drive has failed, or is about to. |
theres nothin on it cause when i heard it i went and got a new one but is there anyway to fix it? i have like 3 of them doing it and they are all newer than 6 months
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Do you want my bad drive as well? :D I couldn't get my data back or my drive to work and I have found no solution.
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lol that sucks ive spent like $400 on new hard drives cause they start to click and im about to tell WD to get bent
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WD is #1 on my avoid list for hard drives.
I also avoid Phillips for CD burners. :mad: Some companies just suck. I think it must be the chase for the cheap electrolytic capacitors that I read about a while ago, but the article only mentioned some mobos. |
what do you buy? i can only find WD ands maxtor around here
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I have had good luck with Seagate. I have a Maxtor 8 gig drive that I have been using since 1999, when I first installed Linux. My old Acer computer had a Seagate 6 gig drive in it that I am still using, and I got that drive when Windows 98 was first released.
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i second seagate. they are probably the most reliable hard drives (very quiet, too :) ). i would take maxtor over WD, but the newer maxtors seems to be failing more than they used to. but get a seagate if you can, you won't regret it.
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are seagates expensive?
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I use nothing but Maxtors in which I've never had any problems. I've got one from about 7 years ago still in use. Every WD I've had is in some scrap yard right now, except one which I can only use as a secondary drive since for some odd reason I can't put a boot loader on it for the life of it.. :D
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ive had this maxtor for about 3 years and it just failed like 2 weeks ago after about 200 (litteraly) installs/reinstalls/formats but now no one around here sells them and most places i look online need a credit card that i dont have
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