How to tell if a drive is faulty?

[Priapus]

Howzit guys.

I have a WD 160GB IDE hard drive inside an external enclouser. Now, I have a feeling that this drive may be on it's way out. It's making noises it never has done before. Like those older hard drives used to make.

Are there any tools or methods, that I can use to test my theroy?

Thanks all.

 

[Priapus]

Well the noise isn't clicking. It's hard to say what type of noise it is. It happenes every few seconds for about 1 to 2 seconds in duration. Like a old HDD accessing data-type of thing. It's loud and happenes when I am not even using the drive.

For now I am taking all data off it though.

 

[Priapus]

Downloading HD Tune now.

Thanks!

 

[Priapus]

This HD Tune is an excellent program.