- hard drive clicks and freezes
- Posted by Hugh Sutherland on May 5th, 2008
I have a 40 & 20 gig HD and every once in awhile it will make a clicking
noise like the read/write head is resetting and sometimes the system will
freeze & I have to RESET. is this indicitive of a hard drive failure going
to happen or wot cause when I reboot it's ok for awhile then later it may
happen again. Could this be a heat issue?
Hugh
- Posted by mscotgrove@aol.com on May 5th, 2008
On May 5, 9:01*pm, "Hugh Sutherland" <hsutherl...@cogeco.ca> wrote:
There are probably several possible reasons, but the most likely is an
impending failure. Copy off your critical data NOW.
Once you have your data safe, you can 'play' with other possible
causes.
Michael
www.cnwrecovery.com
- Posted by Rod Speed on May 5th, 2008
Hugh Sutherland <hsutherland@cogeco.ca> wrote:
It can be. Post the Everest SMART report on the drive.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181
It can be due to other problems too, like the power supply failing.
It can be. Everest will show you the drive temperature in the SMART report for the drive.
- Posted by Arno Wagner on May 5th, 2008
Previously Hugh Sutherland <hsutherland@cogeco.ca> wrote:
Sounds very much like heat, but heat also kills drives, so
it may also be an imminent death issue...
If these are drives with SMART, get the attributes
ans look for anything suspicuous (or post them here).
Arno
- Posted by Arno Wagner on May 5th, 2008
Previously mscotgrove@aol.com <mscotgrove@aol.com> wrote:
Good advice for any suspicuous HDD behaviour!
Indeed.
Arno
- Posted by Hugh Sutherland on May 6th, 2008
this usually happens after I watch a video then it will freeze and I have to
reboot a cpl of times
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- Posted by Rod Speed on May 6th, 2008
Hugh Sutherland <hsutherland@cogeco.ca> wrote:
If you have to reboot a COUPLE of times, its unlikely to be the hard drive.
- Posted by Squeeze on May 6th, 2008
Arno Wagner wrote in news:689k07F2sb73rU2@mid.individual.net
Isn't it nice to have the babblebot's approval.
That even someone as lowly as yourself, way below babblebot's standing,
can get something right once in a while. That must be so rewarding.
- Posted by Squeeze on May 6th, 2008
Rod Speed wrote in news:689ckkF2qu1rlU1@mid.individual.net
Yup, obviously the temperature drops immediately when you reboot.
- Posted by Rod Speed on May 6th, 2008
Squeeze <rubberduck@duckies.au> wrote
Yep, thats why it needs more than one reboot, fuckwit.
