- May 6, 2004
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Long story short, the HDD chocked while receiving a file from someone else, and started slowing the computer down like crazy. At first I suspected virus of some sort, but found nothing with 3 different online virus scans. It turns out the drive hooked up as primary slave was inaccessible from my computer. The icon for the drive was there and the device manager had it, but it took forever to hit right click on it and wouldnt run scandisk. BIOS detects it just fine, but it makes a very audible creeking noise during the bootup process. Having dealt with a few hdd failures, I am pretty positive it may be dead. With the HDD price falling through the floor each day, I am more sad about what was on the drive. Not like I would pay through my nose to recover data though, is there some inexpensive fix I could give a shot at? If everything attmept to recover data fails, I am gonna try low level formatting the drive.