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WD Drive: Click of Death?

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iguanaman

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I have a WD 20GB 7200RPM ATA66 drive as my C drive. It's about 2 years old. Several times in the last week it started making loud clicking sounds and would stop responding ( As B. Gates would say) Windows froze waiting for the drive. I shut down and booted up WD's DOS drive tester and it passed all tests (and no more clicking either). I booted up WinMe again and all was well for a few days. Today, the exact thing happened again.......and the drive is working fine now, AGAIN!
I am pretty sure the drive's days are #ed, but what is happening?
I'd also like someone to suggest a way I can copy my current C drive to another Maxtor drive I have so I can swap them out without a reinstall. Thanks
 
I'd also like someone to suggest a way I can copy my current C drive to another Maxtor drive I have so I can swap them out without a reinstall.
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Put the two drives in another computer (NEITHER as the bootable drive though...so you'll have 3 hd's in the system). Format the Maxtor, and then copy the contents from the WD drive to your Maxtor drive from within Windows. With Windows 98 I was done after that -- I'd just put the drive in the other computer and it'd boot right up. To get it to work with XP Pro all I have to do is run XP Setup and "repair" the installation, and then I only have to install the drivers and patches that Setup wrote over. It's much better than a reinstall. You'll have to figure out what works with ME. I've never used it.
 
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