Hey all just before xmas - I made a thread about my 3TB drive reporting bad sectors and making a noise...
Now -- the old 3TB is still plugged in, just not being used as in I've taken everything off it. I've disabled page files for it as well as temp.
I replaced it with a heavy duty 3tb drive, Transferred all the data over, And 3 months later the new drives making more of a racket [head movement noises] than the one that was failing. No bad sectors or anything though..
The sounds so irritating i can barely focus :/
I've run crystaldisk on the new drive and got no problems.
With the Old drive still attached - would there be any reason for it to be making such a racket when its not even being used? Everything's on the new 3tb. Yet non stop the hard drive is making head movement grinding noises.
Thing is - If im browsing my new drive, It seems to make noises when clicking on big directories. Hence why im assuming the noise is now coming from the new drive.
Is there anyway to tell without pulling the whole thing apart and removing the failing old drive? [ I know how silly this sounds but i don't have alot of time on my hands right now - and where the drive is would require me to rewire everything >.> I can definitely get to it in a few weeks time.
Im hoping its not the new drive as i would have to pay for them to move the data onto the replacement, something im not interested / can't afford to do.
Help?
Now -- the old 3TB is still plugged in, just not being used as in I've taken everything off it. I've disabled page files for it as well as temp.
I replaced it with a heavy duty 3tb drive, Transferred all the data over, And 3 months later the new drives making more of a racket [head movement noises] than the one that was failing. No bad sectors or anything though..
The sounds so irritating i can barely focus :/
I've run crystaldisk on the new drive and got no problems.
With the Old drive still attached - would there be any reason for it to be making such a racket when its not even being used? Everything's on the new 3tb. Yet non stop the hard drive is making head movement grinding noises.
Thing is - If im browsing my new drive, It seems to make noises when clicking on big directories. Hence why im assuming the noise is now coming from the new drive.
Is there anyway to tell without pulling the whole thing apart and removing the failing old drive? [ I know how silly this sounds but i don't have alot of time on my hands right now - and where the drive is would require me to rewire everything >.> I can definitely get to it in a few weeks time.
Im hoping its not the new drive as i would have to pay for them to move the data onto the replacement, something im not interested / can't afford to do.
Help?
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