Recent content by mattnavox

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    Hard drive making clicking noises

    Thanks RM. I'm thinking switching from standard 4-pin power connector to Sata-power connector may have helped as well.
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    Best way to prep a HDD for sale?

    I'm going through the same thing right now and am planning on using a standard knoppix disk and shred (#shred --verbose /dev/hda) as soon as I can figure out why motherboard suddenly has issues with booting itself up.
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    Hard drive making clicking noises

    I've got a 250 gb WD drive that has been making a "click" then "whirring down" type noise. Reseating the power connector seems to fix the problem but I'm still wary. I've never RMAed a drive to WD before so I'm wondering how picky they're going to be about replacing a drive that just "may"...