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Click of death... on Seagate?

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BigToque

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I have a 60GB Baracuda 4 drive that is about one year old now. I was just using my computer when I heard a strange series of noise coming from the drive and then it went silent. My first though was "click of death" (although I've never even had one of 'those' drives before).

My system semi-froze. I could use the mouse for a second, then it would hang for a second, then i could move the mouse again... I couldn't do anything to the menu's though. I figure the computer was using whatever was left in memory.

I did a soft reboot and my ATA card didn't find the drive (Promise Ultra 100TX2). Then I did a hard power off and on, and the ATA card found the drive and Windows booted up fine.

So should I be looking at replacing this drive?
 
Yes. Sounds like the drive is sticking, which is what the "freezer trick" sometimes lets you get past for one more time to read your data.

Needless to say, back up everything you care about right now!!!

Stop reading this and start copying files!
 
Yup, your HD's about to crap out, you better backup what's on there, run HD diagnostics and see if you need to RMA. I got the samething happen to me a couple of a months ago, a pair of WDs in RAID 0 on a promise card. System froze, I restart system, promise can't find the RAID array. I should've backed up my stuff at that time. Didn't do it. The RAID 0 crapped out a few days ago. I had to rebuild and reformat the RAID 0. Maybe I just need a new case w/ better ventilation...
 
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