Why is my hard drive making a clicking/flashing noise?

[SirChadwick]

It just started doing this today. It was fine last night. I have a WD 800JB drive. Any causes for the clicking noise? It also seems to slow things down or lock up.

 

[Tripleshot]

Its the click of death!

Run, run for your life!

 

[reitz]

It's dying. Back up everything important ASAP.

 

[brtspears2]

Backup...like now.

 

[wfbberzerker]

Originally posted by: Tripleshot
Its the click of death!

Run, run for your life!

isnt that in zip drives?

 

[zCypher]

What is a flashing noise? And why is this posted in OT?

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: reitz
It's dying. Back up everything important ASAP.

 

[murphy55d]

Yep..it's on it's last leg.

Is it an IBM Deskstar?

 

[SirChadwick]

$#iznit...dying huh? Well, how do these 3 yr warranty deals work thru WD? I bought the drive at newegg.

 

[SirChadwick]

Originally posted by: zCypher
What is a flashing noise? And why is this posted in OT?

By flashing noise I meant that of a camera's flash. It's in OT b/c no one likes Tech support...you get 1 response if you're lucky.

 

[pillage2001]

Originally posted by: SirChadwick

Originally posted by: zCypher
What is a flashing noise? And why is this posted in OT?

By flashing noise I meant that of a camera's flash. It's in OT b/c no one likes Tech support...you get 1 response if you're lucky.

Are you calling me inefficient. I go over to GEn hard every couple of minutes.

 

[GroundZero]

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
$#iznit...dying huh? Well, how do these 3 yr warranty deals work thru WD? I bought the drive at newegg.

back up now. your head is crashing...
contact newegg if it is their warranty. if not, get ahold of western digital and get their policy on what they want you to do to RMA it.
prob have to send it to either one of them and they will get you a new one.

 

[SirChadwick]

RMAing it thru WD now!

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
RMAing it thru WD now!

there's your best bet...

 

[wfbberzerker]

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
RMAing it thru WD now!

hehe when i read that i at first thought it said "ramming it thru WD now!"

 

[Kevin]

Oh man, 800JB, its gotta be less than a few months old..

 

[Lars]

You should have bought an IBM hard drive.

 

[Paulson]

4 WD hard drives going strong (now watch, one will die...)

40, 60, 80JB, 120

I've had 2 WD's go bad (the 40 and 60) but neither died with the click of death, they just slowed down to the point of not working anymore... so thankfully I could back up everything I needed to!

 

[thawolfman]

Originally posted by: murphy55d
Yep..it's on it's last leg.

Is it an IBM Deskstar?

You mean Deathstar?

 

[SKORPI0]

Just lost 80GB of data on my Maxtor 120GB drive (7200, ATA/133, 8mb) I bought at Best Buy late Nov 2002. Checked all the cables, etc. No warning at all that it was going to fail. I even exchanged the circuit board from another exact model, but still the same clicking noise.
BIOS couldn't even detect the drive.

I had to exchange it at BB for a 2mb cache, the last drive they had. :disgust:

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Originally posted by: SKORPI0
Just lost 80GB of data on my Maxtor 120GB drive (7200, ATA/133, 8mb) I bought at Best Buy late Nov 2002. Checked all the cables, etc. No warning at all that it was going to fail. I even exchanged the circuit board from another exact model, but still the same clicking noise.
BIOS couldn't even detect the drive.

I had to exchange it at BB for a 2mb cache, the last drive they had. :disgust:

I don't see why you're complaining about BB - if you just exchanged it then you were past your 30 day limit for returns, you were lucky

And flashing is visual - I don't see how a hard drive can make a "flashing" noise

 

[SKORPI0]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH

I don't see why you're complaining about BB - if you just exchanged it then you were past your 30 day limit for returns, you were lucky

And flashing is visual - I don't see how a hard drive can make a "flashing" noise

I bought it after Thanksgiving. Receipt showed that you could return/exchange till Jan 24th because of the Christmas season.

The thing that pisses me is I could have made a backup w/ the other 120GB HD I got from thes "Hot Deals". Or even burn them on 18 DVD+R w/ my Sony DRU-500A from Dell. I did not. No warning at all. I'm really surprised that a 2 month old drive go bad so suddenly. I still have 2 year old 20GB Maxtors that work. I was thinking of RMA to Maxtor just to get the 8mb cache but I might end up w/ a refurb 2 mb. :disgust: