My hard drive is making a grinding noise!!

[sirhak]

First of all yes, I'm sure it's my hard drive.

The problem is occuring with one of a pair of IBM 75GXP Deskstar ATA100 30.7 gig 7400 rpm drives. They are striped in a RAID configuration on my Abit KT7-RAID. Every so often one of the drives begins to make a grinding noise. I can make it occur in a couple of ways:

1) Running a very thorough scandisk (running Win2k)
2) Virus Scanning my entire hard drive

I am rather unsure what to do. Got any tips?

 

[DAM]

if its making a pretty bad grinding sound, you might want to a get a new one, clicking/grinding are usually early signs of drive failure. back it up now, while you still can.





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[goldboyd]

yeah, definately sounds like your drive is on the way out. get all your important stuff backed up, and rma that drive

 

[slatt01]

My GXP75 did the same. Get a copy of dft32-v200.exe from IBM and wipe the disk.

You will need it anyway if the drive if faulty as IBM likes to have the error codes this program produces and it makes RMAs a snap.

After I wiped the disc it stopped making the noises and has worked perfectly ever since.

 

[ikaika1]

Uh, excuse me if I'm wrong but... grinding = BAD! There have been alot of problems with IBM's HD's lately, and Ive had to send back 2 40g HDs from Buy.com because they made the sound right out of the package, and failed during w2k setup. Its funny too because I ran their little disk health thingie, and it told me my drive was fine. It forgot to mention that for some reason the drive wouldnt allow information to be written on it. I tried the low level format and it was an absolute no go.

 

[FreakyOCR]

They were probably damaged during shipping.