Is my hard drive the cause for my lockups?

[CraigT]

I've been getting allot of full system lockups in the last month. The lockups happen at the same time I hear a singular heavy "clunk" come out of the hard drive. After the system locks up the hard drive seems to crunch in a quiet fluttering repeat unlike the random crunching that they normally have.

TMC TI5VG+
AMD K6-III 400
27GB Maxtor 6800
128mb PC100

 

[Motorheader]

Seen it many times before. If it never did this before and just started doing this, backup your important data and get that drive replaced - ASAP. Sounds like your drive is about to fail. That "clunk" you hear is an early indication of drive failure. Maxtor has 3 year replacement warranty on their drives.

 

[Vrangel]

I second that.
One day you'll hear even heavier clunk
and your drive will be gone for good.
Personal experience, (sigh...)

 

[eddie]

My hard-drive did a similar thing. Locking up, clunking sounds etc. I ran the maxtor diag and got the error code and called up maxtor. Turned out to be a bad sector. I set up a RMA and got my new Hard-drive.

 

[Gringo]

I've had every make of drive fail, but seem to have a serious problem with maxtor's and WD's...