Off Topic, but o well im special =)

[Guest]

I have to post here
no one goes in the hard drive area and well
i like this section =)

Ok.
I have a Western Digital Hard drive 15 gig 5400 rpm.

Now the drive is brand new, 1 1/2 months old
and its starting to click click click on me

last night it went crazy and windows locked up
i powered down and waited a min
powered back up and click click click then was ok

then it keeps doing this once in a while now
...

but any ideas on what it could be
its a brand new motherboard...
brand new drive
and no idea here

cables are all in tight etc.

anyone know much about hard dirves why they click?

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[Guest]

You suck quit thrwoing the drive aound tbird i told you that already these guys cant help you cause you do stupid things. Geeze.

SPUDMUFFIN

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[mjdunn]

I have only bought a WD once. I had the same problem, the drive was dead after a month of the clicking! Go buy a drive that doesn't suck! By the way why the hell did you buy a 5400rpm drive?

I just bought 3 Seagate Barricuda ATA III, they are awesome, quiet, fairly fast, run very cool!

I had Maxtor's before that no problems with them either(they were just a lil 2 loud 4 me)

 

[rd382]

how big is your barricuda??

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[Guest]

Thankx
man


this is my 3rd WD hard drive in 6 months
all died from clicking....

Prior for WD i had 2 maxtor 7200 rpm drives
both died on me from bad sectors..
So i mean..

I dont know which brand to try now..

The only good hard drive i ever had was.. a samsung..
it was strong as a bull.

Any suggestions for a new drive?

NEVER BUY A WESTERN DIGITAL DRIVE!

BAD BAD BAD

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[Grizely1]

IBM

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[TheAntipop]

or Maxtor

Even a broken watch is right twice a day...

 

[Guest]

Probably all the heat from your HSF

~ I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully ~

 

[Guest]

I've got a 30 gig WD, had it for a year, no probs, but had a friends computer which had a bad one. It would do the same thing, click click click, I reformatted it, no more probs! That was a year ago, and it still works. I Think it might have been trying to access bad sectors, cause it happened after a power surge.

Aklein

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[Guest]

>this is my 3rd WD hard drive in 6 months

And yet you keep buying them???
a fair working definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing, expecting different results. (apologies to whoevers quotation I just butchered)

>Prior for WD i had 2 maxtor 7200 rpm drives

Dude, what are you doing to your computer???
3 HD failures in 6 months + 2 more over some other time frame. I haven't had that many drive failures in over 10 years of use.

Here is one clue...when the system is running, don't move the case, even a little. Jostle it the wrong way while the drive is accesing and you can really screw things up.


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In practice, there is.

 

[Guest]

Just a thought tbird, but why did you mount your PC on top of your washing machine? The spin cycle must be a *itch!!

I may be wrong :frown: ... but I'm not in doubt.