Hard Disk failure?

empesh · 13 Sep 2014 at 23:44

Hey guys,

I have recently just built a new pc and decided to use my old hard drives (previously raided 2x500gb samsung f1's) as storage drives.

I managed to format via "diskpart" command prompt as windows was not recognising. I am now getting some strange sounds coming from the drive, even when totally clean and not in use.

The disk used to make this sound when shutting down in old machine, 2 clicks and then shut down.

I had no problems with the disk in raid and a little confused at why its suddenly going crazy.

Here is a video of the sound:

Thank you!

On Holiday · 14 Sep 2014 at 00:43

Certainly sounds loud. Have you tried testing it? CrystalDiskInfo for SMART stats and SeaTools for Windows/HD Sentinel to check full drive health.

CinderzFTW · 14 Sep 2014 at 19:57

yep,. hdd has failed pal

empesh · 15 Sep 2014 at 15:42

Thx for the replys guys

I have now installed the other samsung f1, and this is doing exactly the same thing.
Getting really confused at this stage, someone mentioned it might be an indexing problem, but I dont even know where to start with that.

I downloaded seagate tools and the drive is perfect.

wonko · 15 Sep 2014 at 15:52

Try zeroing the first part of the disk - I've not experienced it myself but have read that there can be a raid 'flag' left on the disk which can stop it being recognised.

empesh · 15 Sep 2014 at 16:05

How is this done?

wonko · 15 Sep 2014 at 16:24

Seatools has a full erase option under "advanced tests". On the version I've got, the advanced test menu items are greyed out until you click on "basic tests" and then "advanced tests" to enable them.
Make very sure that you pick the right disk to wipe, and of course you won't be able to recover anything off the disk afterwards. If it lets you, I'd expect that you can cancel the operation after a minute or so as it's only the first bit of the disk that may need zeroing.
Good luck!

empesh · 15 Sep 2014 at 16:42

Ok thx buddy!

wonko · 17 Sep 2014 at 10:56

Hi empesh, I'm curious to know if you got the disks working ok?

empesh · 19 Sep 2014 at 15:50

Hey guys,

Thanks for all of the advice!

I ended up connecting the drive to a difference power cable / reordered the sata connections on the motherboard and turned off power saving in windows.

All is working fine in windows and no random clicking sounds, but it still goes a little crazy on start-up sometimes, which is still strange.

Both drives are doing the same thing so I don't think they are failing.

Admiral Huddy · 19 Sep 2014 at 15:55

So do think that the power saving coming in was causing the problem?

empesh · 19 Sep 2014 at 16:01

I have a feeling it might of been but cant be 100% sure.

The fact that it was fine on start-up then after a period of time started clicking, points in that direction.

I'm still not sure why it has problems on start-up sometimes and other times runs flawlessly.

I'm tempted just to buy a new sata storage drive and use these in an enclosure.