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Is there any hope for a sata hard drive that was working fine but in session failed to write. now when I start up the computer it just keeps clicking like it is stuck. its my documents drive only. backed up in July

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How you mean 'clicking'? Does the OS start or is it stuck on black screen when you hit the power button?

yes os starts up. that has its own drive . the clicking drive is my documents drive. windows can see it but cant see the contents and it keeps making a clicking sound

Your hard drive is about to die any time, could be days or weeks before you get even more problems and the disk refuses to boot.

Backup everything now and buy a new hard disk.

The best software to use for backing up is Acronis TrueImage. I make an entire disk image and save it on another hard drive so if my disk breaks all I do is buy a new one and restore the backed up drive image and I have my system working again from when I last backed up the disk image. I have like a 20-30GB image backed up and TrueImage can compress the images so it's even smaller, mines about 5.5GB.

No reinstalling Windows and no reinstalling all your software.... plus you don't lose any of your work!

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/pr ... trueimage/ - £25 quid is a very small price to pay.

That drive is shot. You should back up asap. If you cant get it to recognize in windows, try a mepis linux boot cd. That can generally read/mount stuff that windows has problems with. But yeah, no hope for that drive. If its still under warrenty, you can send it back to the manufacturer and they should send you a new one.

we refer to that as the "click of death"

unklefesta wrote:we refer to that as the "click of death"

yep.

back it up if you can. and get ready to say "PEACE HARDY".

Yeah seems no good just checked it in a new dell PC and still nothing. Thought it might have been a power issue. I am surprised cause I only got it this year.

And how are you shutting down your computer? Do you just unplug it with shutting down properly or do you just unplug any external drives attached?

I do shut properly but I do just unplug an external drive some times. Do you think that could be something to do with it? The computer has crashed quite a bit in past when recording sometimes. that's way I thought It was a power issue some of the drives plugs seem loose when you plug them in.

you should always power down completely and then disconnect the drive, or disconnect the drive by ejecting it. the computer will let you know when it is "safe" to remove the drive. otherwise, manufacturers say that it can and will cause damage.

panner wrote:I do shut properly but I do just unplug an external drive some times. Do you think that could be something to do with it? The computer has crashed quite a bit in past when recording sometimes. that's way I thought It was a power issue some of the drives plugs seem loose when you plug them in.

Yeah that's exactly why. A lot of external drives come with Disk Write Caching turned off which should allow to safely unplug the hard drive without having to eject it but even with it off it still fucks up the disk.

I backup to a hard drive I barely use aswell as an external, theres nothing more irritating than lost dubs ...... *nudges numerous people on the forum*

Well the conclusion is that it was fucked. I got some stuff with recovery soft but alot would not work ok. samsung gave me a new harddrive. Lost some stuff but thank god for my backups!!! only lost two months stuff