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Probably damaged platters and/or read/wright heads... I am out of ideas what i could try next. Thanks friend for your help.

Unfortunately it did not work. Hard drive is definitely bad. I have tried jumper settings 5-6 and 7-8 (advanced format). The result is always the same, a lot of bad sectors (HD Sentinel report) and anomalous overall operation, clicking sounds, 5 min boot time, corruption of several files etc...

I just enabled 1.5 mode with jumper, it's basically SATA 1 but that's perfectly all right if she can store data reliably. I will do a low level format again with this speed, maybe controller on this motherboard can not properly communicate with this particular hard drive on 3.0 rate. Thank you...

It's AM2 socket for Athlon 64X2. There are jumper pins on the hard drive, however it came without jumper, on wd site they say the drive is ready for use as is. It needs a jumper only if used on windows xp(advanced format drive, for better performance) and there are just two other positions, one...

I know, i should have.. but for some reason (fool) i was hoping it will be ok (grave mistake and fool again). My motherboard is old K9N neov2. Don't know is it worth to try it on newer mobo?

I bought my WD15EARS in 2009. From the first day I was having problems with it. I used it only for storage, and I was ok with green concept, slower speed, silent drive and low consumption of energy. However, that is when my now 5 year struggle with it had begun. Clinking sounds, freezing of its...