Hi Everyone
I have an IBM 25GB 7200rpm drive. It's roughly around 2 years old now and lately it's been giving me problems. Over the past couple of weeks I've been seeing it crash due to instability as well as giving me a blue screen (in xp? weird no?) once in awhile from a fatal error. I decided to move my OS to a new HD but I haven't switched over completely yet. So I'm still running my old HD.
Last night I was running a few things.. icq.. aim etc then all of a sudden the hd made a click/power down type noise and evreything stalled for about 20 seconds. I thought my computer had crashed but after 20 seonds it continued working... but about 5 minutes later everything just started closing on it's own and my computer crashed.
It seems that everytime something bad is about to happen it makes a click noise/power down noise. SO, my question basically is.... how long can you expect a drive to last for? and what kind of signs should I be lookig for in terms of determining if the drive will fail soon or not?
Thanks,
Cooj
I have an IBM 25GB 7200rpm drive. It's roughly around 2 years old now and lately it's been giving me problems. Over the past couple of weeks I've been seeing it crash due to instability as well as giving me a blue screen (in xp? weird no?) once in awhile from a fatal error. I decided to move my OS to a new HD but I haven't switched over completely yet. So I'm still running my old HD.
Last night I was running a few things.. icq.. aim etc then all of a sudden the hd made a click/power down type noise and evreything stalled for about 20 seconds. I thought my computer had crashed but after 20 seonds it continued working... but about 5 minutes later everything just started closing on it's own and my computer crashed.
It seems that everytime something bad is about to happen it makes a click noise/power down noise. SO, my question basically is.... how long can you expect a drive to last for? and what kind of signs should I be lookig for in terms of determining if the drive will fail soon or not?
Thanks,
Cooj