My first hardrive is making clicking sounds....

[Naer]

but I have nothing running. It can be idle and still do that. My computer is noticanoticeablybly slow

 

[RaistlinZ]

Backup anything important you have on there. Clicking is almost always an indication of immanent hard drive failure.

 

[Naer]

Backup anything important you have on there. Clicking is almost always an indication of immanent hard drive failure.

it stopped. thanks

 

[HeXen]

Backup now...........NOW

 

[Naer]

another thing. My ssd drive is now being shown as sd/mini-mmc/rs

What's the deal?

 

[Naer]

anyone?

 

[corkyg]

Assuming it is the same SSD as in your previous post, how about answering the questions there so we iknow where we are?

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2375684

 

[Naer]

Assuming it is the same SSD as in your previous post, how about answering the questions there so we iknow where we are?

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2375684

the hardrive that was clicking was my 900gb hardrive, not the ssd. It's fine now, but my comp says sd/mini .is this normal?

 

[Naer]

and I want to restore the os of the ssd to factory, but I can't clone the 900mb drive because not enough space on ssd

 

[C1]

No big deal if the used space on the 900mb drive is less than the SSD.

Just shrink the 900mb drive active partition to size that will fit the SSD then do the cloning. I do it all the time. Even if the used space is bigger than the SSD, you can off load just the data on the 900mb till the used space is compatible with SSD space, then shrink the partition then do the cloning. I do it all the time. True Image should handle this automatically for you in the sense that it is able to disregard unused space when creating a transferred image so that you dont have to do partition shrinking. You just have to make sure that the used portion of the source is slightly less than the target. I do it all the time.

 

[corkyg]

It is also possible to do proportional cloning if you have the right software. As long as the actual space occupied by the data will fit on the ssd, the large HDD can be proportionally cloned.

 

[Steve Rimar]

I would backup or clone your current hard drive ASAP. I had a hard drive that clicked then stopped. A week later it died completely.

 

[nk215]

Like everyone said, back it up right now. Important data first because it may even fail during the backup.

HD are so large now that they can take a massive amount of data with them. I can't imagine of losing 2-3TB of data. Even the least important data - BluRay and DVD mkv - it would take forever to re-rip them back.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

Backup anything important you have on there. Clicking is almost always an indication of immanent hard drive failure.

+1

 

[JManInPhoenix]

Backup now...........NOW

+1