hard drive noises!

[Yann]

Hi all,

My hard drive seems to make a few clicking noise just before it freezes.
Once it froze, the HDD light stays on. I give my Case a small slap on the
side and the HDD clicks again and sometime goes back to normal and at time
it gives me an error like this * BCResident, Unable to get procedure
address. * should it need a low level format or the HDD is slowly letting
go? Thanks.

 

[GoGetEm]

no......just plough on using it until it stops completely and you loose
everything.

is that what you expect us to say.......change it now before it does.

dont people ask the dumbest questions.......

mini

 

[Lane Lewis]

Run the manufacturers test.

 

[Groove]

Yann said this...

* should it need a low level format or the HDD is
slowly letting go? Thanks.

It's almost certainly dying. Start backing up your essential stuff asap.

 

[Wheat Muncher]

Lane Lewis enlightened us all with these words of wisdom:

Run the manufacturers test.

<snip>

Only after backing things up ASAP. If it's an IBM, do it quickly, it hasn't
got long.