How to tell if a drive is faulty?

Priapus

Priapus

Priapus

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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. :confused:

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

Thanks all. :)
 
You could run HD Tune and perform a error scan and check the health page.

There is also the western digital data lifeguard tools which can run diagnostics on your drive.
 
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.
 
In a different machine with both plugged in, using lifeguard I can access both of them and set them up as additional storage device, can see them in normal windows environment then, however the format utility takes seconds to complete.. that doesn't sound right to me.
Anyway did that and now back in the main machine, both visible in RAID utility during boot, set them back up as a RAID0 set (32k stripe) and in the process of allowing windows setup to format them during XP setup...
Bet you £10 when it's finished it reboots to say NO HDD found....
 
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