harddrive problems

[BenMorton]

I have a seagate 80gb ata hard drive and I’ve had it for about a year or more but recently its been giving me random beeps and they're becoming more and more frequent, the only problem I seem to have at the moment is when I run scan disk my computer freezes and I have to reboot.

I'd like to figure out whats going on and fix it without having to format and lose data

Any ideas?

 

[BenMorton]

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[basmic]

Before anything else, run SeaTools

It could be just the heat, which is making your drive re-callibrate itself more frequently. Quite a few drives re-callibrate themselves when they detect a sharp change in temperature. This is to keep the heads properly aligned, when the metal may change shape slightly because of the heat.

Run SeaTools to make sure, though.