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Hard Drive Clicking

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DaMaN841

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I first started hearing some random noises when the hard drive would be accessed at bootup, and sometimes when games would load. It was usually a sound you'd hear right before a game was going to lock up. It's a 120 Western Digital SE drive, partioned into 60, 30, 30. I was transfering over about 13 gig worth of files from the 60 partion (c) to a 30, when half way through, it just froze. The second time it froze was half way through an installation, at the next bootup. After those 2 in a row, the computer wouldn't boot, it would freeze trying to get into windows, etc. So, I finally cmosed my computer. I set it at default speeds and tried to boot, didn't work. Then I thought it was my floppy drive so I disabled that, and that just ended up being another clicking problem altogether.

One time I did get lucky enough for it to go into safe mode, and I was browsing through files, but it was going really slow, and every minute I'd hear a clicking noise, it would lag for a moment, and the continued until I rebooted. So I decided, windows must be corrupt, so let me repair it. Big mistake, for now I can't even get into safe mode, and when I try to use the bootup cd to install windows, it just freezes on the Windows Setup blue screen. I also tried switching the hd from Parallel 0 to 1, but no luck.

I'm running out of ideas. I really don't know what my next step is. It's been a while since my last problem. Any help would be fantastic. Thanks for reading this mess, I appreciate it.
 
Sounds like a dying drive, to me. I've seen similar behavior in another drive I have. I could still pull data off it, but it would eventually click, and the entire system would lock up.
 
Damn I was afraid that was it, well that stinks. I wonder how much longer I'll have before it dies entirely :( Thanks for your help, I'll try to contact Western Dig for an RMA.
 
Click -Click - Click It's a warning symptom and you should backup anything important there and then.
 
so my new maxtor 160gb SATA drive is going to be fucked soon? Mine locks somtimes and just before it did it this time i heard a click. I have no money to replace this, surley maxtor should give me a new one........ :rolleyes:
 
if it's dying within the warranty period. an hdd should last you 4-5 years at the least.
 
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