Something is wrong with my raptor...

[mitchafi]

One of my harddrives keeps making a clicking noise but I can't figure out which it is. Also, drive letters are sporadically disappearing and forcing me to restart. Upon restarting the bios said that there was in an error in my seagate drive but it still allowed me to load windows. I ran Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics and it is saying that the seagate drive is OK but for my raptor it says "no info available" and when I try to run a "quick test" it says cable test failed right off the bat. I switched the SATA cable with the only other one I have (never been used) and it still says the same thing. Can anyone help me out here this is a huge headache and I'm worried that one of my drives is going to die at any minute. The worst part is I don't even know which one so I can back up the data.

 

[mitchafi]

Anyone? I'm afraid this is a disaster waiting to happen.

 

[AristoV300]

Usually the clicking sound is a sign of failure to come. I suggest backing up your drive and think about cloning it a new one ASAP.

 

[mitchafi]

desperation bump

 

[DerwenArtos12]

those are called the "clicks of death". It is going to die. ghost it ASAP.

 

[mitchafi]

Originally posted by: DerwenArtos12
those are called the "clicks of death". It is going to die. ghost it ASAP.

I don't even know which hard drive it is...I took the side of the case off but I can't hear which one it is coming from. The one that is getting the cable error in the diagnostic is the raptor, which I have ghosted, but it seems that both of the drives are flaky or something. I don't knwo what the hell is going on.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

turn it off, unplug one drive, turn it back on. if you hear clicks, that drive is dying. repeat as necessary.

 

[mitchafi]

Tried that...the one that has clicks passes the diagnostic though and the one that gets the error doesn't.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

wow, that sucks for you. There both dying.

 

[MobiusPizza]

lol so you meant the diagnoses for Segate was OK. But it's Segate which is clicking
The Raptor failes the diagnosesbut it doesn't click...

Hm ironic
Get a huge drive and backup all information you wanted from both HDD.
You're pretty lucky in terms of the fact Raptor is a small capacity drive

Then, do a format on Raptor to see if the diagnoses still fails
And pray for your Segate

 

[Sonic587]

It could be possible that the clicking is coming from a fan in your computer. Have you tried stopping the fans one by one with your finger?

 

[stevty2889]

I would suggest running seagates diagnostic tool on the seagate rather than western digitals...not sure if it will make a differance but you never know..