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Hard Drive Broken?

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October 8, 2014 3:08:58 AM

Hello forum people,

I believe my Hard Drive is dying/broken. I heard this sound before, but it disappeared for a while when I placed it inside a different PC.

I don't know how to describe the sound, but it kinda sounds like an old classic printer I guess. The sound begins, stops for a second, begins, stops and this pattern basically continues for an unspecified time and then simply just stops until it decides to start again whenever.

The sound seems to come from the front of the PC, where indeed the Hard Drive is located.

Can anyone basically give an opinion about this, whether this might fit what I believe the problem is? Thanks in advance.

PS: I could take a look and possibly make it easier to find where the sound comes from, but it is a shared PC and I don't want to be doing this without consulting the other owners.

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a b G Storage
October 8, 2014 3:31:09 AM

well suggest run a diagnostic on it. (WD drive = WD Data Lifeguard, Seagate = Seatools , and so on), if it is confirm that it is failed (and probably is) replace it and try to salvage your files before it totally fail.
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a b G Storage
October 8, 2014 3:33:51 AM

Hey there ChrisOrange,

Do you know the brand and the model of the drive?
It sounds like the drive is struggling with something. I would suggest checking it for any bad sectors as well as checking its S.M.A.R.T. status to see if and what problems does it have. You could do a simple chkdsk /r check from the CMD.
I would suggest downloading and running WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic tool and running both the quick and the extended tests and post here the results so I can provide you with some more feedback. Here's a link: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=810...

Hope this helps, keep me posted on how this is resolving,

Captain_WD.
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October 8, 2014 4:11:56 AM

I'll update my post later, but these are ancient Maxtor Drives. 2x 6V250F0 and a STM3320820AS one. I thought I knew which one would be the faulty one, but I might have been wrong.

The sound seems to be more activate when I run games, but these aren't installed on the main drive though. I don't know how this works, but are these games being read (when running) on the drive they're installed on? If this might be the case it should be one of the 6V250F0 ones.

Should I still continue with what you suggested or?
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a b G Storage
October 8, 2014 4:32:04 AM

ChrisOrange said:
I'll update my post later, but these are ancient Maxtor Drives. 2x 6V250F0 and a STM3320820AS one. I thought I knew which one would be the faulty one, but I might have been wrong.

The sound seems to be more activate when I run games, but these aren't installed on the main drive though. I don't know how this works, but are these games being read (when running) on the drive they're installed on? If this might be the case it should be one of the 6V250F0 ones.

Should I still continue with what you suggested or?


I would suggest so. Check all three drives as you never know when a drive has an issue (even if it's not apparent) and you don't want to risk losing your data.

Captain_WD.
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a c 327 G Storage
October 9, 2014 12:39:25 AM

Run CrystalDiskInfo against the drives. Look for reallocated, pending, or uncorrectable sectors.

In particular, check the raw values of each attribute rather than the normalised values.
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