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Is my Western Digital HD dying on me?

M

Mears

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I have a Western Digital 7200rpm Expert Series HD that someone suggested could be dying due to my problems:
problems
What do you think?
 
I dont think those are the symptoms of a dying western digital drive.
It first starts to give off these clunking noises for couple of hours, then when you reboot the hd is undetectable. Thats what happened to me anyway 🙂
 
Have you looked for virus???. Seems like something is messing with your exe-files. Have you tried to reinstall your system???.

AoD 😉
 
Just did a virus scan with PC-cillin and it didn't pick up anything. I haven't tried a reinstall because I don't want to lose all the stuff I have installed right now. I'm going to use that as a last resort. Has anyone experienced this with faulty Hard Drives?
 
Why, of all the pieces in a computer, would you think it is the hard drive? Have you checked your cables? If you really suspect that its the HD, I'd replace the connection cables with known working ones first.

When hard drives die, IF they give any indication, is either loud clicking, bad sector spreading, repeat access of a sector (this goes with load clicking), or bad motor (where the HD tries to spin up and can't, and it sounds like its having an asthma attack)

Any more too the list? =p
 
Well I don't really know what it is. I ran a virus scan and didn't pick anything up. I reinstalled DII and it worked fine. Then I went back and tried playing it later and it messed up. Also the patches I've downloaded for some games will install ok the first time, but when I reinstall the original game and try to use the patches they don't work and I end up having to reinstall them a second time. This is getting really annoying.
 
Have you tried clocking the fsb to spec and then reinstalling the game? I've gotten a lot of hard drive errors when my CPU was OC'ed too far, and it's easy to diagnose.
 
It's the overclocked FSB for sure.

Revert to default speed for a couple of days and see if the problem recurs.

If it doesn't then you are overclocking too high, if it does then your cables or possibly the HDD may be faulty.

First rule of overclocking: when things go wrong clock back to default and see if problem persists *before* blaming the hardware.

Greg
 
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