Hello,
I bought a 2nd hand 7200.10 750 gb recently and it randomly during windows starts making the click of death ( and locks the pc 2 mins after it starts doing that), usually after 10 mins of watching a film from it...
The hdd is still accessible and can be copied from after a reboot, but from experience ( a 6 yr old hitachi did the same, died after about 2 weeks after symptoms started
. ) I know it'll die very soon even refusing to boot.
What is the most ''safe'' way to copy files from it, that makes the less strain on it, such as dos ( the 160 hitachi refuses to boot to windows at all but with an ntfs reader app for dos it's still readable butvery slow... ) ?
I can still copy in windows, but I'm afraid that it might give it completely if I start doing that, 400 gb of data needs to be moved.
Already ordered a new Samsung F1 750gb which will arrive tomorrow, but I don't want to lose 400 gb of data ( most of it is redownlaodable from the net but still...).
So, what's a less aggressive way of accessing a hard drive? Last time I asked people told me to try linux, is there any point in this, will linux also be less ''rough'' on the hdd compared to windows ?
I bought a 2nd hand 7200.10 750 gb recently and it randomly during windows starts making the click of death ( and locks the pc 2 mins after it starts doing that), usually after 10 mins of watching a film from it...
The hdd is still accessible and can be copied from after a reboot, but from experience ( a 6 yr old hitachi did the same, died after about 2 weeks after symptoms started
. ) I know it'll die very soon even refusing to boot.What is the most ''safe'' way to copy files from it, that makes the less strain on it, such as dos ( the 160 hitachi refuses to boot to windows at all but with an ntfs reader app for dos it's still readable butvery slow... ) ?
I can still copy in windows, but I'm afraid that it might give it completely if I start doing that, 400 gb of data needs to be moved.
Already ordered a new Samsung F1 750gb which will arrive tomorrow, but I don't want to lose 400 gb of data ( most of it is redownlaodable from the net but still...).
So, what's a less aggressive way of accessing a hard drive? Last time I asked people told me to try linux, is there any point in this, will linux also be less ''rough'' on the hdd compared to windows ?
