Possible Overheat Problem, ADVICE PLEASE

[Nebuchadnezzar]

I got a recent problem with my hard drive, its making a lot more noise than normal and after a while the screen freezes and I need to turn off for a while, i am thinking this maybe to do with overheating of the smaller 80gb hardrive that I have the operating system on.

I have recently fitted a fanless silverstone PSU and a zalman flowerpot cpu heatsink and fan, and just last week fitted an acoustifan 80mm case fan, so dont know why I should be having overheat problems.

I was wondering how i could go about removing the 80gb hard drive and putting the operating system onto my other 180gb hard drive without losing any info on it, can this be done without the need for reformatting.

Or is there any other solutions to this problem?

thanks all,

 

[semi-pro waster]

You could certainly clone your 80gb to your 180gb(maybe 160gb?) but you may need nothing to be on your 180gb. A program like Norton Ghost allows an exact copy of your OS.

Have you tried directing a fan onto the hard drive to see if that stops the overheating? If it does then you may wish to either replace it or possibly get a hard drive caddy with built in cooling functions.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

assistance required with problem

thanks for the reply,

I been looking into it in more detail, It appears not to be the old trusted 80gb hitachi deskstar, but the 200gb baracuda 7200 seagate drive.
Its running very very slowly and its also causing the system to freeze, its half full and now that I am attempting to move stuff from it onto the 80Gb it takes an eternity if ever, I have disconnected it at the moment and the system is working great but I need some of the stuff on the 200gb before formatting it if thats the problem.
Downloaded the seagate diagnostic tools and it asks me to reboot from floppy drive, I dont know how to get it to do this!! thought it used to do this automatically.

would appreciate any further assistance

 

[semi-pro waster]

You can probably still set the boot order in bios so that the floppy disk drive will be the one that it boots from and gives you access to the Seagate tools at a level below any OS.

You could also try plugging the hard drive into another system and see if you can recover the files more easily in that way.