Hello all,
I have been using my Seagate Barracuda 1tb Drive for about 2.5 years, within the last week it began clicking, but not that often. Now I'm in quite the predicament
Being uneducated I thought it was just something it did. because it wasn't brutal at all, just light clicking, almost beeping.
Anyway comes to 2 days ago and the clicking is getting pretty brutal so I go out and get a 500gb drive (Toshiba) and Tried put my most valuable things I want/need to keep, Every now and then when transferring files across the Seagate drive would disappear and to bring it back i would unplug either SATA cable(s) (consist of an L-shaped one and a Flat headed one) and it would come back.
Today I turned on my PC and The computer would get stuck on the "starting windows" screen. just to clarify I have Windows 7 installed on a Samsung SSD, anyway I waited about 5-10 minutes and it took me to the screen to login. Upon logging in no programs would start, clicking the task bar or start menu would freeze up and cause either explorer.exe to stop responding, or "Microsoft windows" to not respond, from there on no program will load, even programs on the SSD only, (Antivirus etc)
I shut down my PC, Unplugged the Seagate Hard-rive and starts it up again and boom launches perfectly and can run files of the SSD only (because the Seagate isn't plugged in). after that I tried plugging in the Seagate drive, It would spin up but windows would not do a thing, I looked in computer management and couldn't see the drive there, I'm very unfamiliar with the asus bios I'm running but I believe it recognizes the seagate drive.
Basically, I can only launch windows successfully with the Seagate Unplugged. if its plugged in it will hang at "starting Windows" if it proceeds nothing will load correctly on the SSD, the seagate drive spins, I think bios sees it but windows does not.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated. As I am very desperate.
My PC Specs:
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 3770 @ 3.40GHz 50 °C
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 800MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P8Z77-V LX (LGA1155)
Graphics
BenQ GL2450H (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB GeForce GTX 670 (ASUStek Computer Inc)
Hard Drives
112GB Samsung SSD 840 Series (SSD)
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224BB
Audio
Sound Blaster Z
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Computer type: Desktop
Installation Date : 16/05/2013 8:15:18 PM
Please let me know if I missed out any info. also apologies for terrible grammar and stuff.
I have been using my Seagate Barracuda 1tb Drive for about 2.5 years, within the last week it began clicking, but not that often. Now I'm in quite the predicament
Being uneducated I thought it was just something it did. because it wasn't brutal at all, just light clicking, almost beeping.
Anyway comes to 2 days ago and the clicking is getting pretty brutal so I go out and get a 500gb drive (Toshiba) and Tried put my most valuable things I want/need to keep, Every now and then when transferring files across the Seagate drive would disappear and to bring it back i would unplug either SATA cable(s) (consist of an L-shaped one and a Flat headed one) and it would come back.
Today I turned on my PC and The computer would get stuck on the "starting windows" screen. just to clarify I have Windows 7 installed on a Samsung SSD, anyway I waited about 5-10 minutes and it took me to the screen to login. Upon logging in no programs would start, clicking the task bar or start menu would freeze up and cause either explorer.exe to stop responding, or "Microsoft windows" to not respond, from there on no program will load, even programs on the SSD only, (Antivirus etc)
I shut down my PC, Unplugged the Seagate Hard-rive and starts it up again and boom launches perfectly and can run files of the SSD only (because the Seagate isn't plugged in). after that I tried plugging in the Seagate drive, It would spin up but windows would not do a thing, I looked in computer management and couldn't see the drive there, I'm very unfamiliar with the asus bios I'm running but I believe it recognizes the seagate drive.
Basically, I can only launch windows successfully with the Seagate Unplugged. if its plugged in it will hang at "starting Windows" if it proceeds nothing will load correctly on the SSD, the seagate drive spins, I think bios sees it but windows does not.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated. As I am very desperate.
My PC Specs:
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 3770 @ 3.40GHz 50 °C
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 800MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P8Z77-V LX (LGA1155)
Graphics
BenQ GL2450H (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB GeForce GTX 670 (ASUStek Computer Inc)
Hard Drives
112GB Samsung SSD 840 Series (SSD)
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224BB
Audio
Sound Blaster Z
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Computer type: Desktop
Installation Date : 16/05/2013 8:15:18 PM
Please let me know if I missed out any info. also apologies for terrible grammar and stuff.
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