failing hard drive?

[bakaris]

Hi,

I have an old hard drive, a 60GB diamondmax (model 5T060H6). I had it in my computer, but my parents needed more hard drive space so I swapped it over to their computer. it worked fine for a few weeks, but then I wasn't bale to write to the disk properly anymore. The disk would start squeaking and clicking and then I'd get a data write error. So I ran powermax on it, but it was unable to find any errors. The question is: Is powermax falliable? anyone ever have a similar experience? is the hard drive actually finished, or if not, does anyone have an idea as to what the actual problem may be?

thanks!
mark

 

[dBTelos]

Are you sure the clicking is coming from that drive? If it is then toss the drive.

 

[dball3]

i have had similar clicking from a hard drive and it turned out to be my power supply. one rail wasn't getting enough juice so i switched the plug with the one in the cd drive and it worked . So after that i went and got me a new power supply. and i'm still using the drive.