MarcVenice
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I've got 2 HD's, but one of them is making a clicking sound. I'm FAIRLY certain it's my IDE Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB, it's roughly 2 years old, and it started clicking roughly half a year ago. It's annoying me though, the clicking sound is the loudest sound my PC makes. Now, I'm using a SATA drive, samsung 500gb spinpoint as my primary drive, that's where Vista is on, and all my application.
Now, I've got a couple of questions. How do I shut it down ? Can I MAKE it go into 'standby' mode like Windows can ? I think it keeps spinning up and down, for no real reason ? Vista has nothing to do with it I think, but it keeps getting accesed ? Someone mentioned Durastep to me, 'WD's DuraStep Ramp locks the heads in a secure position when the drive is not in use'. It can click about once a minute though, if not twice a minute. Sometimes it doesn't click for 5 minutes or longer though ?
If I can shut it down, short of unhooking it, I can determine wether it's actually that HD making the clicking sound. I'm not sure where the windows boot files are on btw, which is why I'm not sure if I can boot using just my samsung drive. * I had the WD before the Samsung, and I'm dualbooting into XP ( old ) on the WD, and booting into Vista on the samsung ( new ).
Now, the last question, I read about having the swapfile on a different HD ? Should I use my WD for that ? I'm unsure about using it for storage, because the clicking sound makes me think it can die any moment. Sometimes I get annoyed when uninstalling something though, or moving something around, and the HD can't keep up, so using both HD's would be a easy way to counter that, no ?
MarcVenice
Now, I've got a couple of questions. How do I shut it down ? Can I MAKE it go into 'standby' mode like Windows can ? I think it keeps spinning up and down, for no real reason ? Vista has nothing to do with it I think, but it keeps getting accesed ? Someone mentioned Durastep to me, 'WD's DuraStep Ramp locks the heads in a secure position when the drive is not in use'. It can click about once a minute though, if not twice a minute. Sometimes it doesn't click for 5 minutes or longer though ?
If I can shut it down, short of unhooking it, I can determine wether it's actually that HD making the clicking sound. I'm not sure where the windows boot files are on btw, which is why I'm not sure if I can boot using just my samsung drive. * I had the WD before the Samsung, and I'm dualbooting into XP ( old ) on the WD, and booting into Vista on the samsung ( new ).
Now, the last question, I read about having the swapfile on a different HD ? Should I use my WD for that ? I'm unsure about using it for storage, because the clicking sound makes me think it can die any moment. Sometimes I get annoyed when uninstalling something though, or moving something around, and the HD can't keep up, so using both HD's would be a easy way to counter that, no ?
MarcVenice
