Hard Drive troubles

starkweather · 1 May 2007 at 17:45

Basically, I noticed some clicking with my hd a few months ago, followed by my PC crashing. That happened twice a few months ago and has been fine since. Then today (and two days ago) I logged into XP and the icons down the bottom right failed to load up, then I heard a humming sound (not clicking) from my hd and the screen froze for about 30 seconds. When it let me move the mouse pointer I had to log out and back in to get the bottom right icons to show. It's an intermitting problem for sure.

The hd in question is a 74GB SERIAL ATA RAPTOR HDD WITH 8MB CACHE (10000rpm) which has 47.4GB of free space.

It's only six months old as well.

rpstewart · 1 May 2007 at 17:53

Go and get a copy of WD's diagnostics program (there should be a link in the sticky) and run it against the drive. Make sure you do a full test rather than a quick check of the SMART data.

starkweather · 1 May 2007 at 18:01

Anyone have a link to WD's program?

rpstewart · 1 May 2007 at 18:34

Like I said, it's in the sticky - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=4217263&postcount=1 About halfway down.

starkweather · 1 May 2007 at 18:40

There's many links on there. I don't know what I am looking for. There's none which are called "diagnostics program". Help! :rolleyes:

rpstewart · 1 May 2007 at 18:47

It ain't tricky, follow the one for WD's downloads page and the diagnostics are at the top of the "most popular downloads".

starkweather · 1 May 2007 at 20:37

Sorry, can't find it.

Edit: downloading now

starkweather · 1 May 2007 at 22:16

It's passed both tests, both quick and extended. My hd seems to play a tune with the quick test, a low sound which gets higher, lol. That normal?

:confused:

pc-modd · 2 May 2007 at 01:04

"" My hd seems to play a tune with the quick test, a low sound which gets higher, lol. That normal? ""

lol haha sounds like its about dead to me.. i had one a while ago like that

starkweather · 2 May 2007 at 01:08

Ok, thanks

basmic · 2 May 2007 at 09:12

If it were me, and I'd backup all the data on it, and flog it into the ground for about a day. After the day is up, retest it immediately - if it passes after that, I wouldn't worry.