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I have a Seagate SERIAL SATA Barracuda 7200.8 NCQ 200Gb.
In terms of data, no corruption and no crashes or whatever. However, every 30 mins or so the drive would make a clunking noise and seem to reset. Now when I boot into windows it makes repeating ticking noises. Once windows has loaded though it seems to be fine. Does this sound like bad sectors or something? I notice in SMART that the fitness of the drive is only about 1/3. Is there any software that'll analyse the disk but keep my work?
In terms of data, no corruption and no crashes or whatever. However, every 30 mins or so the drive would make a clunking noise and seem to reset. Now when I boot into windows it makes repeating ticking noises. Once windows has loaded though it seems to be fine. Does this sound like bad sectors or something? I notice in SMART that the fitness of the drive is only about 1/3. Is there any software that'll analyse the disk but keep my work?
