Tuesday night I was happily playing a game when all of a sudden I got a BSOD... hmm strange I thought. Tried to reboot and just got faced with a message similar to 'insert a bootable media and press any key to continue' straight after post 
. My conclusion was dead hard drive (250GB Samsung Spinpoint, years old). So I managed to recover the files from it using a bootable Linux CD and put all my files onto my 500GB spinpoint.
Now lurking in the draw I had another identical 500GB spinpoint which I bought from someone on the MM well over a year ago, barely used at that point and said to be pulled from a working machine (long term member, no reason to distrust him). I decided now was a good time to use it and promptly installed Windows 7 onto it. All seemed fine until I started hearing a weird "clicking" noise and the system hanged for a few seconds before carrying on as normal. Now any time I try to do something with a big file (anything over ~1GB) the clicking noise starts and the system hangs until it stops. I also tried to run a self extracting 2GB file and it comes up with a 7-zip CRC error. Not getting any other crashes or bad behaviour though and the drive runs smooth and quiet 99% of the time.
Is it looking like this "as new" hard drive is actually a dud from the beginning? . I can't blame the guy who sold it to me as it's probably been sat around for about a year and a half but I need to know whether to replace it.
Thoughts?
Edit: forgot to mention I ran a checkdisk and it DID come up with some bad clusters that were supposedly fixed but the clicking persists.
. My conclusion was dead hard drive (250GB Samsung Spinpoint, years old). So I managed to recover the files from it using a bootable Linux CD and put all my files onto my 500GB spinpoint.Now lurking in the draw I had another identical 500GB spinpoint which I bought from someone on the MM well over a year ago, barely used at that point and said to be pulled from a working machine (long term member, no reason to distrust him). I decided now was a good time to use it and promptly installed Windows 7 onto it. All seemed fine until I started hearing a weird "clicking" noise and the system hanged for a few seconds before carrying on as normal. Now any time I try to do something with a big file (anything over ~1GB) the clicking noise starts and the system hangs until it stops. I also tried to run a self extracting 2GB file and it comes up with a 7-zip CRC error. Not getting any other crashes or bad behaviour though and the drive runs smooth and quiet 99% of the time.
Is it looking like this "as new" hard drive is actually a dud from the beginning?
. I can't blame the guy who sold it to me as it's probably been sat around for about a year and a half but I need to know whether to replace it.Thoughts?
Edit: forgot to mention I ran a checkdisk and it DID come up with some bad clusters that were supposedly fixed but the clicking persists.
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