Really Bad Timing

greymack

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I have posted on here recently about my aim to get an SSD at christmas, the Bigfoot 120gb has drawn my attention :)
Anyway when i turned on the PC on Saturday it went into checkdisk mode, i don't think it found any problems and proceeded to boot windows.
Yesterday when i booted up i thought i heard a noise but wasn't sure as the tv was on at the time.
Tonight , we have noise, in fact it sounds suspiciously like hard drive noise. The only way to describe it is like normal hard drive clickety click but 10 times louder.
But as windows loaded the noise went away and now it's perfectly silent.

I may be asking the obvious here but in all my years of PC'ing i have never had a hard drive fail on me..................but is that what's happening now?
 
I have had a HDD clicking that lasted a few months...
So if your planning on getting a new SSD at Christmas, it may be worth making sure you have a backup, and just running it on a hope and prayer.

It should last till Christmas if not longer ;)
 
I'm backing up as we speak.................my steam games are taking ages ;(

Anyway if i get the OCZ bigfoot 120 gb it's not big enough for my needs.
My plan was to use the OCZ for windows and apps and leave my games on my current 750gb samsung spinpoint F1.
Should i just purchase the bigfoot and also another samsung spinpoint, say 500gb?
 
Personally the price of Platter HDD's are so cheap, I would get SSD for Windows, and a good 500 odd gig for games and such.

Depending on how much space you currently use.
 
The drive is maybe 2 and a half years old give or take.

Is the windows disk checker any good or should i download something else?
 
wow that was quick, ran it and well the outcome was health status - good - 32oC

What exactly was i looking for, red errors?
 
If Health Status is 'Good' then I'm inclined to say then that hard disk is fine. I've seen it give 'Caution' when some of the readings are off the scale.

Alternative is to run HD manufactures own (free) tools on it.
 
Whatever the brand of HD it is just to be sure grab the manufacturers disk checking utility to be safe. Just go over to their website and trawl to find the appropriate tool and run it as it neds to be ran for it to do its diagnostics. My Samsung F4 and Wd Green (both 2TB) would look fine in Crystaldisk but both would fail in their respective disk checking utilities, thus both were replaced.

As you have already backed up I will not mention that :)
 
As for getting the manufacturer's test utilities, you can't go wrong with getting the Ultimate Boot CD (google for that). It's a 300meg ISO which has pretty much everything like that on it, including loads of manufacturer tools.

Beats dusting off the floppy drive to run a manufacturer tool :P
 
who uses a floppy...? :)

WinDlg_122.zip - Western Digital Data Life Guard (Windows version) 896kb
EsTool.exe 794kb - Samsung (ran from USB stick)

The above are for the noted make of drives and are less than 2mb in total to download.
As I have mentioned already both of my drives would pass the other SMART type tools tests, for the Samsung it would only fail the Samsung EStool test with a Hard Drive RAM error...
Service Code => AJ41 : RAM Error.
The Western Digital would throw up a SMART error failure service code 7 - according to WD that meant there were too many bad sectors on the drive.
 
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