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[Robbie Ride]

articuno1au, on 27 April 2012 - 17:48, said:

Oh.. Well in that case it's possible there was a power supply issue.

When you say SATA cable, people are always going to think of the data cable.

The clicking could be caused by insufficient voltage reaching components.

Yeah thats what i was thinking i removed the fan from between the PSU and HDD and changed the Sata (data) cable.

[+articuno1au]

Baha.. I like that people are all still saying the same thing

Clicking = Death. First rule of harddrives I'd be backing that drive up regularly I think >.>

[nyolc8]

articuno1au, on 27 April 2012 - 17:34, said:

My objection to this is you have no idea which outcome will be the answer.

I take a very black and white approach to this. Once a drive starts clicking, it's out.

It started to clicking for me... It clicked everyday, the whole pc hanged, I needed to reset, turn off etc... And when I re-partitioned it, it became perfect, and not a single clicking happened from that. This happened 2 years ago, and the hd works perfectly everyday from then. I'm using it right now too. So no, it's not out. Atleast for me.

[Robbie Ride]

articuno1au, on 27 April 2012 - 17:51, said:

Baha.. I like that people are all still saying the same thing

Clicking = Death. First rule of harddrives I'd be backing that drive up regularly I think >.>

let me clarify something the clicking is NOT constant but random and usually stops even if data is being read or written to it. Let me also say that the last time i hear it click was on Monday and it started again about an hour ago.

If it were about to fail the clicking would be constant, i would also experience system freezing, data erros and a whole host of other things.

[Robbie Ride]

nyolc8, on 27 April 2012 - 17:58, said:

It started to clicking for me... It clicked everyday, the whole pc hanged, I needed to reset, turn off etc... And when I re-partitioned it, it became perfect, and not a single clicking happened from that. This happened 2 years ago, and the hd works perfectly everyday from then. I'm using it right now too. So no, it's not out. Atleast for me.

Since i have changed the cable there have been no clicks at all, even now that i am transfering around 300GB of data from it. I don't think a randomly clicking drive means its on its way out the door to a tearful goodbye, and i think the issue was the SATA cable, i would love to be proved wrong but i cant see it happening.

[QUAD2500K]

are you still under warranty ? i had the same problem you are having & i ended up getting a replacement. from the time i placed the request to the day i got the replaced hd was 4 days

i live in the united states they sent the replacement drive out first & as soon as i got the replacement i sent the failing drive out

it only cost me $10.67

[ninja502]

try hirens and use dos tool HDD Regenerator 2011

[Robbie Ride]

ninja502, on 27 April 2012 - 18:51, said:

try hirens and use dos tool HDD Regenerator 2011

I will give it a try after my data is backed up

QUAD2500K, on 27 April 2012 - 18:18, said:

are you still under warranty ? i had the same problem you are having & i ended up getting a replacement. from the time i placed the request to the day i got the replaced hd was 4 days

i live in the united states they sent the replacement drive out first & as soon as i got the replacement i sent the failing drive out

it only cost me $10.67

Yeah i think i am still under warranty, i will try a few suggestions if those fail i will RMA the drive

[Hum]

Hell-In-A-Handbasket, on 27 April 2012 - 17:23, said:

It's dead Jim.

"I'm a doctor, not a Computer whiz."

[TRC]

ninja502, on 27 April 2012 - 18:51, said:

try hirens and use dos tool HDD Regenerator 2011

All that does is try to recover data from damaged sectors and then marks them as bad. It can be helpful in file recovery but it won't save your drive. Back up everything and pull its life support plug, it's done. Even if it works for a while after running that utility, bad sectors have a tendency to spread. The drive should never be trusted again.

[HawkMan]

Robbie Ride, on 27 April 2012 - 18:00, said:

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If it were about to fail the clicking would be constant, i would also experience system freezing, data erros and a whole host of other things.

Actually no. A faulty hard drive can click at just random times or specific times or nearly constantly. In general it will get worse over time though, but not necessarily.

Also download seatools and run a few checks, starting with a plain SMART test.

[Robbie Ride]

TRC, on 27 April 2012 - 19:25, said:

All that does is try to recover data from damaged sectors and then marks them as bad. It can be helpful in file recovery but it won't save your drive. Back up everything and pull its life support plug, it's done. Even if it works for a while after running that utility, bad sectors have a tendency to spread. The drive should never be trusted again.

The drive doesnt have any bad sectors. I changed the SATA cable well over an hour ago and no issues.

[TRC]

Robbie Ride, on 27 April 2012 - 19:28, said:

The drive doesnt have any bad sectors. I changed the SATA cable well over an hour ago and no issues.

All I can tell you is cables don't click.

[Robbie Ride]

TRC, on 27 April 2012 - 21:32, said:

All I can tell you is cables don't click.

its obvious cables dont click i never said they did, i think you misread what i wrote, but faulty SATA data or power cables can cause issues with HDD's. Even a faulty PSU with unstable voltages can cause issues with system hardware there for changing the PSU solves the issue, hence why i changed the cable in the first place.

On another note its nearly 12 hours since i changed the SATA data cable and removed the fan from the equation and guess what, no more clicking, i think doing this has solved the problem.

[TEX4S]

Robbie Ride, on 27 April 2012 - 18:00, said:

let me clarify something the clicking is NOT constant but random and usually stops even if data is being read or written to it. Let me also say that the last time i hear it click was on Monday and it started again about an hour ago.

If it were about to fail the clicking would be constant, i would also experience system freezing, data erros and a whole host of other things.

No it wouldnt, not every time, you're assuming to much. What you can assume is in order for their to be sounds, there has to be movement. Only a few things move inside a computer, fans, HDD, and optical drives. If it was clicking, and you replaced/moved a couple things, it is more likely that they were rubbing against a fan.

Before you go thinking "click is gone, no more problems" run HDTune's error check.

Oh, and there is no such thing as a 4-pin SATA molex, at least any more. Its one or the other.