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hard drive making funny noise

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pax2179

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every once in awhile recently, my hard drive (one of 2) has been making funny noises, like its resetting or something, its a loud click followed by a prominent spin. Does this mean its giving out, and should i disconnect it to prevent it damaging orther stuff or what?
 
doesn't sound normal to me.. normally that means the drive is going south... that's how my Maxtors usually end life.. :roll:
 
Everyone knows about the "click of death" when it comes to hard drives. It ususally means that it's dying. I'd highly recommend you back up what ever is on there that you don't want to lose, and to start looking for a new hard drive.
 
I guess my comment that it is normal is premature. I should have asked how old your drive is, whether it did that before, etc.


I'm used to my notebook drive clicking, as they all do that from day 1.
 
it could mean your drive is dieing... that happened to me once on a project, but it was i had to many components running off of a weak 250 watt PSU. swapped that out and all was well. are those noises more like cliks or klunks? it could be dieing... so backup all your stuff while you can.
 
its goin west mate.....my friends lacie 120Gb usb HDD made heavy clicking noises....he had to get it rma'd
and they only recovered half is files :s
 
Originally posted by: CraigRT
doesn't sound normal to me.. normally that means the drive is going south... that's how my Maxtors usually end life.. :roll:
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Grrr, my Maxtor D9 160 is doing that. If it's under 70 ambient it'll go for days, over 70 it'll go a few hours, CLICK, Whir, computer locks up. Gonna end up buying a DVD burner finally just to back up so I can RMA it
 
That hard drive sounds like it is probably in deep trouble. Could you give us a quick rundown of your system specs? You might not have enough power supply to get the job done. My 80GB SATA Maxtor was doing that 'till I replaced my old Enermax 350 with an Antec 480. I think that I probably caused my brand new SATA Maxtor 160 gig to fail (Sob story here) to die because of a weak power supply. I had like 4 hard drives total plugged in, and it broke when I was transferring files over for like 5 hours. It choked and died after I had about 70GB transferred over. I should have just burned DVD's, but I was lazy. I'll never make THAT mistake again.

But ever since I put this bigger power supply in, my older 80GB SATA hasn't been doing that God-awful click every now and then that makes my back teeth hurt. I mean, this thing clicked like a car door slamming.
 
I've had several drives that made a click sound from day one. I always assumed it was just a normal seek noise. Recently I put my raptor in a zalman cooler and it took care of the noise.
 
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