Hard drive

[lennox]

[=BAR]Clicking noise is generally associated with faulty hard drives and
a sure
sign of imminent heartache.

Go out and buy a new HDD and CLONE the dying unit across: waste no
time, as
a total loss of data and system can be very expensive [US $ 450 +]
should any
documents need to be recovered by a specialist recovery company.

So don't wait to spend the money on a hard drive plus recovery: just
buy the
drive now and you won't have to send the drive off to a specialist.


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I have xp home edition, every once and awhile I'll hear a clicking
noise come from my computer,shortly after it freezes up,then a blue
screen comes up.telling me there is something wrong and is going to
shut down. Is this an indication that the hard drive is going bad..I
forgot to mention when the blue screen comes up I really don't have
time to read the whole thing.but on the bottom is says something
about
dumping,at this point I shut it down. Sometime it will go into shut
down mode and say it's shuting down but freezes up and I manually
have
to shut it down...I really need help


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lennox
-[Could you give me some info on different hard drives what is a good
one to buy .

]

 

[Guest]

NO definite whys and nots here.

Some folks who don't have a lot of PC knowledge may find that Seagate and
Maxtor 'Retail' drives are good, because they come with a lovely CD that
helps to initialise, format and otherwise prepare a new disk for use. They
also have Drive Cloning application thathelp people in your situation: that
is to 'clone' the existing Hard drive onto the new one and then use the new
Drive as the System drive. All very useful and worth the money.

Although not available from other manufacturers with new drives, it
shouldn't prevent someone with Ghost or Drive image from buying a drive from
Hitachi or Samsung or Western Digital.

For myself, the Hitachi/IBM are fine items as well as those from Seagate or
Maxtor.

All have very similar specifications and one dud or lemon can come from
every plant.

 

[Guest]

Youre best bet is to chk event viewer to see whats taking place in the
system,
buying a new hd might be the problem but then the drive which has C: on it
might also not recieving data from the video adapter,memory,or the board
itself could be at fault.Clicking is usually a hd noise,but thier are alot
of variables
that could cause it to have problems.Western digital and seagate (though
expen-
sive) are at the top.