Is my hard drive about to die?

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Well recently ive been getting some loud noises on boot. I beleive it to be the hard drive. Yesterday i started it up and it was a very loud noice. One ive never heard before or can really explain. It wasn't the scratching sort where your hard drive is having an overload but it did sound bad. But i don't always get these noises. Todays boot was perfectly fine.

Do you think its time for me to start backing everything up? I find it strange that one day it will make a very loud noise which sounds like its having a heart attack and other days its fine.
 
Back it up, if it goes pop you then you'll realise how important your data is to you.

You was lucky maddness, I had an old seagate show signs of failure so I got a 250GB drive to replace it with. Transfered all the data off the seagate, then the new drive's morot failed within 8 hours of use =/
 
unlucky lol.

Aww the long trawl of backing everything up :(

Maddness was your screeching everytime you turned it on? as it booted up again fine today. Damn i hate these maxtor crappy things.
 
my 250g samsung has been making strange noises tonight!! Like a wire caught in a fan (Not that there is a wire caught in a fan!! I have checked) It is quite new too!! Yikes!! Backing up now.
 
Senture said:
You was lucky maddness, I had an old seagate show signs of failure so I got a 250GB drive to replace it with. Transfered all the data off the seagate, then the new drive's morot failed within 8 hours of use =/
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I read that the other day and thought "poor guy". Then I turned my PC on this morning to find that both my hard drives boot sectors were corrupt and I couldn't boot into XP or Vista, and I made backup copies the night before of BioShock on both drives in case something happened. So now I have to start all over again in BioShock. Typical :/

But to the OT, definetly backup whatever you need too. Although really you should be doing that always anyway :)
 
Get Acronis TrueImage and do a backup. After you've got a backup, you know your data is safe, and you can play about with the drive all you like.

For now, concentrate on backing up, even if it's just a simple drag-and-drop to another drive or a blank CD in Nero. Once that's done, run the manufacturer's diagnostic tool. Usually if there's a fault, it'll show up in the advanced/thorough/long testing phase - which should then produce a code, which you use to RMA the drive with.
 
maxtor is a joke with their hard drives. Last one went and they told us to do all that digonostics and it didn't show anything then it died a few days later. Gues ill be working away on the cds.
 
8igdave said:
maxtor is a joke with their hard drives. Last one went and they told us to do all that digonostics and it didn't show anything then it died a few days later. Gues ill be working away on the cds.
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How much data do you have to chomp through?

I got sick of optical media for backing up onto, and just bought a USB to IDE adaptor, and use a donated 120gb Western Digital drive.

Think that WD drive overheated, but the owner didn't trust it after it failed. It's doing me just fine, though. :cool:
 
about 450gb of family photos. Some are backed up but its a mishmash from people coming and uploading pics onto the pc and i dont know how many there are now and loss count of those which have been backedup which means really i gota do it all again to make sure i dont miss anyway.
 
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