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Hard drive keeps clicking and spinning down

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SickBeast

Lifer
I have an old 250gb WD hard drive that keeps clicking and then making a "whirring" sound as though it's spinning down. Sometimes it will do it every few minutes.

I have AAM "on" and set to "128".

Power Management is supported, but I have not set an idle timer.

APM is not supported by the drive.

I have Windows 7 set to spin down all of my hard drives after being idle for 5 minutes.

Is my drive dying? Can I change some of the settings (AAM or power management) to alleviate this?

TIA
 
Sounds like Win 7 is doing what you told it to do after 5 minutes of unuse. Suggest you turn that off. Then, download and run WD's diagnostic tools and test the drive. If it is a few years old, it could well be on the way out.
 
corkyg said:
Sounds like Win 7 is doing what you told it to do after 5 minutes of unuse. Suggest you turn that off. Then, download and run WD's diagnostic tools and test the drive. If it is a few years old, it could well be on the way out.
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Yeah I was thinking it might be Windows doing it as well. Thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to try it. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

The problem is, if I turn off the Windows power management, it will turn it off for all my drives, which I don't really want it to do.

Perhaps I will use HDDScan to manually program a power management "idle time" for each of my drives according to what I want.
 
OR, put that drive in an external case and turn it on/off as needed.
 
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