HD probs

Dibbers · April 18th, 2005

In the last 2 days, my system has become very unstable (weird errors and crashes etc), very slow to boot up and launch programs, and the hard drive has been making some very unusual crackling and clicking noises, even when Idle. I thought it might be virus (even though it's not connected to the internet), but I've scanned my system and all is OK. I've run Chech Disk, and all is clean (although it took 3.5hours to do it).I checked 'speed fan' (a program that monitors the fans and HDs) yesterday and all was good, but this morning it reports the health of my Maxtor 120gb Hard Drive at about 40% !

Am I right in thinking my HD is about to die, and if so can I have the contents 'ghosted' onto a new HD ?

crazy homeless guy · April 18th, 2005

i would back everything up asap. it sounds like you hard drive will stop working very soon. i have had this happen, and lost work and libraries. it is no fun.

Dibbers · April 18th, 2005

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Originally Posted by crazy homeless guy

i would back everything up asap. it sounds like you hard drive will stop working very soon. i have had this happen, and lost work and libraries. it is no fun.

Just taken it in, and they think it's going to die too. I just hope they can boot it up 1 more time to be able to copy everything across. It's my C Drive where all my programs are (my data files are on another drive), so I can re install them if neccessarry, but a bit of a pain.

crazy homeless guy · April 18th, 2005

when i had this happen before we think the problem was related to a speaker to close to the hard drive. i lost 2 drives within a week. the speaker was supposedly shielded.

Dibbers · April 18th, 2005

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Originally Posted by crazy homeless guy

when i had this happen before we think the problem was related to a speaker to close to the hard drive. i lost 2 drives within a week. the speaker was supposedly shielded.

My speaker is about 600mm from the HD, so it won't have been that.

3dp · April 18th, 2005

happened to me 18 months back
pulled drive and put in sealed bag into fridge overnight (not freezer) and it was enough to save the data and the job at the time
hope you save it all

Jeff Mottle · April 18th, 2005

Must be going around, One of my drives is doing the same thing. I've had it with failign drives, happens about every 2-3 years with me, so I just ordered an 8 channel RAID controller and am picking up 4 new drives to run in a RAID 0 configuration. Unless the whole array goes or is killed by a virus then I'll be safer. I hope. I just hope everything is ok before the new drives get here. My drive mirrors have been less than successful the last week and as of this moment I'm not able to access my computer remotely, so I'm a bit worried it's gone.

bully712 · April 18th, 2005

My computer is making a noise when starting up. Once it boots up, it's fine. I thought maybe one of my fans was going bad. Could my problem also be the HD? I just installed a secondary HD a few months ago. Could it be my primary HD?

moshenko · April 18th, 2005

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Originally Posted by Jeff Mottle

I just ordered an 8 channel RAID controller and am picking up 4 new drives to run in a RAID 0 configuration. Unless the whole array goes or is killed by a virus then I'll be safer.

You'll probably want to consider at least a RAID 1 (mirroring) setup, if not RAID 5. RAID 0 (striping) will give you great performance but no redundancy or fault tolerance. Good link to RAID definitions:

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/...214332,00.html

Dibbers · April 18th, 2005

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Originally Posted by moshenko

You'll probably want to consider at least a RAID 1 (mirroring) setup, if not RAID 5. RAID 0 (striping) will give you great performance but no redundancy or fault tolerance. Good link to RAID definitions:

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/...214332,00.html

I do already have a RAID (striped) set-up

April 18th, 2005	#1 (permalink)
Dibbers Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Leeds. UK Posts: 1,023 Name: Iain Denby	HD probs In the last 2 days, my system has become very unstable (weird errors and crashes etc), very slow to boot up and launch programs, and the hard drive has been making some very unusual crackling and clicking noises, even when Idle. I thought it might be virus (even though it's not connected to the internet), but I've scanned my system and all is OK. I've run Chech Disk, and all is clean (although it took 3.5hours to do it).I checked 'speed fan' (a program that monitors the fans and HDs) yesterday and all was good, but this morning it reports the health of my Maxtor 120gb Hard Drive at about 40% ! Am I right in thinking my HD is about to die, and if so can I have the contents 'ghosted' onto a new HD ? __________________ Hard boiled eggs and nuts....Mm! www.idenby.co.uk

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crazy homeless guy Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: San Francisco Posts: 2,979 Name: travis schmiesing	Re: HD probs i would back everything up asap. it sounds like you hard drive will stop working very soon. i have had this happen, and lost work and libraries. it is no fun. __________________ travis schmiesing

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crazy homeless guy Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: San Francisco Posts: 2,979 Name: travis schmiesing	Re: HD probs when i had this happen before we think the problem was related to a speaker to close to the hard drive. i lost 2 drives within a week. the speaker was supposedly shielded. __________________ travis schmiesing

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3dp Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Bahrain Age: 45 Posts: 179 Name: david pinnington	Re: HD probs happened to me 18 months back pulled drive and put in sealed bag into fridge overnight (not freezer) and it was enough to save the data and the job at the time hope you save it all __________________ can i have everything louder than everything else please

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Jeff Mottle President/Founder Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Age: 33 Posts: 5,162 Name: Jeff Mottle	Re: HD probs Must be going around, One of my drives is doing the same thing. I've had it with failign drives, happens about every 2-3 years with me, so I just ordered an 8 channel RAID controller and am picking up 4 new drives to run in a RAID 0 configuration. Unless the whole array goes or is killed by a virus then I'll be safer. I hope. I just hope everything is ok before the new drives get here. My drive mirrors have been less than successful the last week and as of this moment I'm not able to access my computer remotely, so I'm a bit worried it's gone. __________________ Jeff Mottle CGarchitect.com

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bully712 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Age: 30 Posts: 251 Name: Marc Bulebush	Re: HD probs My computer is making a noise when starting up. Once it boots up, it's fine. I thought maybe one of my fans was going bad. Could my problem also be the HD? I just installed a secondary HD a few months ago. Could it be my primary HD? __________________ wireboxdesign.com rendering the imaginative

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