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Hard Drive Clicking

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by Born2killx, Oct 6, 2008.

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  1. equitypetey

    equitypetey Well-Known Member

    brilliant one of my harddrives is squeaking now, but its a very old 40gig one that is only for my downloads so it doesn't matter but it is pissing me off as my torrent keep messing up.
     
    equitypetey, Oct 14, 2008
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  2. Shuvo01

    Shuvo01 Well-Known Member

    My old 10 year(You heard it right kids) old 40gig quantum fireball is still going.HURRAY!!It's mainly for torrents.Beside that I have a 750 gb hitachi.And i am very pleased with it.
     
    Shuvo01, Oct 15, 2008
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  3. rush n kaos

    rush n kaos Well-Known Member

    oo 750 gb, nice... i have a 500 gb right now, but thing is i don't put a lot of stuff in my computer so most of it is just blank space, at least it doesn't seem to be messing up
     
    rush n kaos, Oct 15, 2008
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  4. Born2killx

    Born2killx Well-Known Member

    The hard drive died. It cannot boot the OS anymore. I have a backup from October 9, so I will lose some of my files and a bookmark. I'm going to send it in for a replacement when I feel like it. In the meantime I'll just use my old laptop to go on the Internet.
     
    Born2killx, Oct 30, 2008
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  5. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Saw that coming, I'm afraid. Get a seagate as a replacement, they have 5 year warrenties. I've just got 4 replacements for 4 year old disks
     
    Loonylion, Oct 30, 2008
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  6. Patton

    Patton Guest

    Freeze the drive in a zip block bag, BANG the drive onto a hard surface once, and take the drive out.

    It will be perfectly new.
     
    Patton, Oct 30, 2008
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  7. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    it will fail again though, thats only for recovering data.
     
    Loonylion, Oct 30, 2008
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  8. Patton

    Patton Guest

    Mine hasn't failed for 5 years + because of that trick ;D
     
    Patton, Oct 30, 2008
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  9. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    you've been luckier than most, generally the freezing trick works for one spin up only.
     
    Loonylion, Oct 30, 2008
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  10. Born2killx

    Born2killx Well-Known Member

    My hard drive is under warranty, so I won't get a Seagate for my current computer.
     
    Born2killx, Oct 30, 2008
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  11. Born2killx

    Born2killx Well-Known Member

    I got a refurbished HDD back. I couldn't figure out how to restore the hard drive from the image (Windows doesn't boot for some reason. It just stays at the POST screen with a flashing underscore). So I reinstalled Windows. Hooray. After installation, Windows BSoDs during the little green moving bar thing. I ran Memtest86+, and it turns out one of my RAM sticks is screwed. First my sound card, then my hard drive, then my mom's PSU, then my RAM! My house must be cursed or something. So, I'm running my computer with a fresh Vista install with only 2 gigs of RAM. I'm going to RMA the bad RAM. Limited lifetime warranty. :p

    ...Good thing I have all my pictures and music on my second hard drive. ;D
     
    Born2killx, Nov 22, 2008
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  12. equitypetey

    equitypetey Well-Known Member

    vista sucks balls run xp

    but if you like a bit of vista try the prestige version of xp as it looks and runs a bit like vista but it xp at the core

    thats what i'm running an di rather like it at the moment
     
    equitypetey, Nov 23, 2008
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