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HDD Clicking

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So I started UTORRENT and each of the files that are in utorrent are being downloaded to one of my hard drives. Utorrent kind of stalled and stopped responding. After this happened one of my hard drives made a clicking noise. Could this be a virus.. or a hard drive going bad... Anyways, I unplugged the HDD and waited for about 30 minutes, plugged it back in and it works now, with no clicking.. What should I do? I am currently scanning my HDD's for Viruses, just in case.. Because today I also went to a website that happened to have a spyware/or something malicious. Not sure what this could be.

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Your HDD is going bad so stop using it NOW till you can back up the data. As for when it will fail who knows maybe now, tomorrow, next week, 2 years from now but it will fail better to be safe.

dyslecix said:
So I started UTORRENT and each of the files that are in utorrent are being downloaded to one of my hard drives. Utorrent kind of stalled and stopped responding. After this happened one of my hard drives made a clicking noise. Could this be a virus.. or a hard drive going bad... Anyways, I unplugged the HDD and waited for about 30 minutes, plugged it back in and it works now, with no clicking.. What should I do? I am currently scanning my HDD's for Viruses, just in case.. Because today I also went to a website that happened to have a spyware/or something malicious. Not sure what this could be.


The drive is dying. Replace it soon.
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