sabwafare2001 Posted June 30, 2002 Share Posted June 30, 2002 I have two hard drives, 1 dvd and 1 cdrw drive. My hard drive on the secodary master makes a clicking noise. I restarted my computer and I enabed this S.M.A.R.T. opinion thats in the BIOS. It reported that the status was bad and I needed to replace it. I ran disk check and asked it to fix any errors ( which Ihad to restart my computer again ) and the S.M.A.R.T. reported no errors and that the status was ok. So has my hard drive gone bad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted June 30, 2002 Share Posted June 30, 2002 Originally posted by sabwafare2001 I have two hard drives, 1 dvd and 1 cdrw drive. My hard drive on the secodary master makes a clicking noise. I restarted my computer and I enabed this S.M.A.R.T. opinion thats in the BIOS. It reported that the status was bad and I needed to replace it. I ran disk check and asked it to fix any errors ( which Ihad to restart my computer again ) and the S.M.A.R.T. reported no errors and that the status was ok. So has my hard drive gone bad? CLICKING = DEAD Drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sailgreg Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 Can you read/write data to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabwafare2001 Posted July 1, 2002 Author Share Posted July 1, 2002 Yes I can boot from it and read data from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impulfusion Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 hhummm welcome... i had a HD who was gone too... long time ago but it started making wierd noise while loading on it... then taking too much time when browsing on it and then it shutted down and never restarted again...:disappoin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbabyte Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 it would seem that Xstaindx is right....clicking = dead drive... but that's not always the case....at least not with me... a couple of months back....my drive was doing the same thing....clicking noises... after a couple of days....drives e and f were gone....the drive seeeeeemed dead...and i thought it was so i took it out...was ready to buy a new one...figured i would give it one more try...and it worked.... so...to make a long story short....clicking can be cause by a drive being overly used at one point...or too much heat... i got a hard drive fan....and haven't heard clicking since....i still use that same drive.... if it starts clicking...i would suggest shut your computer down for an hour or so....just let it cool off...or go get a fan... hope that helps....once again...just my experience.... staindx could be right.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbabyte Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 rather than buy a new drive...here is what i suggest....much cheaper buy a fan for your drive... get all your stuff off the drive while you still can...incase it does die. delete the partitions and format....(clear the drive of ANYTHING) [] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbabyte Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 Originally posted by Impulfusion hhummm welcome... i had a HD who was gone too... long time ago but it started making wierd noise while loading on it... then taking too much time when browsing on it and then it shutted down and never restarted again...:disappoin that's what happened to me....exactly...making clicking sounds....so i shut it down...and my drives were gone...wouldn't start up at all... have you tried it again recently...mine just took a little time to "freshen" up....heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impulfusion Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 Originally posted by Bubbabyte that's what happened to me....exactly...making clicking sounds....so i shut it down...and my drives were gone...wouldn't start up at all... have you tried it again recently...mine just took a little time to "freshen" up....heh well after i saught that it was gone, the trash was his new home ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts