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Today my computer has started experiencing a new problem, which became more frequent right up until now. It will make an odd click noise, and very shortly after freeze up entirely, forcing me to manually reboot at the switch. After the click, if I hit the Start button on windows, the menu wont load properly. hard to explain. It's still under warranty. I've only had it for 4 or 5 f***ing months. :/
On intial evidence of the noise you say it's making, it sounds like it may be a hard drive sector error.
Have you tried rebooting in safemode and doing a disk check, normally if it finds bad sectors it will block those sectors off allowing the rest of the drive to continue working.
If the drive is under warranty, i'd say try to rescue your files off the drive and get it changed, a bad sector on one part of the drive normal leads to the whole drive breaking sooner or later.
Of course it could be something completely different, but a noisy clicking hard drive always makes me think of a dodgy sector before any other possibility.
Thank you for the reply. Weird thing is, I left it 10 minutes earlier to make some food and switched on to look around for some answers, and it has quit doing it..
Still, I think ill play it safe and take it back into the shop. ;/
Seeing as it is under warranty what Det has said is right, save all your stuff and get them to sort it out, be aware this time of year...... hope you have a back up pc, and would be wise to make a note of the serial number of motherboard, and hard drive etc, so when it comes back with the same components you can call em lying bastards (if you have bought it from pc world, curry's etc)
The last 2 dying hard drives i have had......took them both out and whacked it on the floor! worked both times and killed the noise....both drives run in my old pc now had no problems since....
but then again was having a look at a friends whos fujitsu drive looked like it was from the stone age! gave it a tiny bash......neva started up again....luckily it was only a spare drive that only had music on at the time.
The last 2 dying hard drives i have had......took them both out and whacked it on the floor! worked both times and killed the noise....both drives run in my old pc now had no problems since....
but then again was having a look at a friends whos fujitsu drive looked like it was from the stone age! gave it a tiny bash......neva started up again....luckily it was only a spare drive that only had music on at the time.
spose 2/3 aint bad just for bashing it.
NEVER subject a hard drive to any kind of impact, even dropping one a short distance onto a table
can cause the read/write arm to collide with the disc, and cause irrevocable surface failure
mate if your 2 hard drives survived the impact you described, i'm the arch bishop of canterbury.
if you have a hard drive that you suspect is faulty, and want to claim warranty, then thats probably
the only time you would want to give it a good bash, to make sure it definately is dead before you return it to the maker.
pleased to greet you mr Arch bishop, i got no need to lie worked fine for me... i am no talking about a hammer to it just about a 10cm drop on a hard floor...... obviously a drop from 3feet is gonna destroy the thing
well i've just done exactly that on 4 drives i've pulled from old machines i'm upgrading,
2 aren't even readable, 1 makes an awful noise when it tries to spin up, and one, miraculously,
still works...
Hi,
would my problem be the same?? I have to switch on then off and on again, to get the PC to boot up. Its also running really slowly.
I have tried all the normal things, running AV, clearing up the drive, I even reformatted this last week.
I have come to the conclusion it must be the HDD.
Any help appreciated
Hi,
would my problem be the same?? I have to switch on then off and on again, to get the PC to boot up. Its also running really slowly.
I have tried all the normal things, running AV, clearing up the drive, I even reformatted this last week.
I have come to the conclusion it must be the HDD.
Any help appreciated
Is your hard drive making any unusual noises?
Are you getting any errors popping up, or is it just running slow?
What operating system you using?
A slow running machine could be a number of things, so we need to try and narrow it down a little.
I think my harddrive is screwed, help!
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