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Smackre · 04-07-2006, 07:49 PM

So i go into work and one of the office computers is making alot of noice. So i take the cover off and the HD is ticking. Ive herd people say this happens alot right b4 the hd dies. Ohh ya you gotta turn it on and off 2-3 times to get it to boot off the drive. what you guys think?

HD Dieing on me? If so i got one sitting here ready to have windows installed on it.

xepherys · 04-07-2006, 07:55 PM

Almost definitely, yes! The ticking can be caused by a couple of different things, but all of them spell a soon-to-be dead hard drive. Sorry... :-/

Plaid13 · 04-07-2006, 08:02 PM

yep the one hard drive that i had die ticked for about a week before it finaly died on me.

Dilbert1234567 · 04-07-2006, 09:13 PM

take the hard drive out, mount it in a working computer, copy the files off anyway you can to save them, if you have a program like Norton ghost, you can try to go drive to drive with a fresh drive, this will make a copy of the hard drive, you can take the copied drive and place it back in and boot as if nothing ever happened. If you don’t have Norton ghost, there are other free programs out there that do the same thing, but I don’t have any name off the top of my head.

MikeSty · 04-07-2006, 09:26 PM

Heh. My secondary has been ticking for months now. I backed it up but it has cleared up. It only ticks occasionally now.

But to be sure, back it up ASAP!

Smackre · 04-08-2006, 12:53 AM

it could use a fresh install anyways. ill just copy my documents off of it and reinstall windows on the new drive.

Dilbert1234567 · 04-08-2006, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Smackre

it could use a fresh install anyways. ill just copy my documents off of it and reinstall windows on the new drive.

always a good idea, i try to do a fresh install every 4 months or so, keeps everyhing humming nicely.

MikeSty · 04-08-2006, 01:06 PM

Hehe, when I first built my machine I swore I'd reformat tri-annually. It's been over a year and I'm still working off the original install

Etarip · 04-08-2006, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Smackre

the HD is ticking.

Somebody set up us the bomb!

04-07-2006, 07:49 PM	#1 (permalink)
Smackre Addict	Computer HD So i go into work and one of the office computers is making alot of noice. So i take the cover off and the HD is ticking. Ive herd people say this happens alot right b4 the hd dies. Ohh ya you gotta turn it on and off 2-3 times to get it to boot off the drive. what you guys think? HD Dieing on me? If so i got one sitting here ready to have windows installed on it. __________________ Intel® Pentium® M Processor 730 (1.60 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB) 17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen XGA+ Display 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2 Dimm 256MB NVIDA® GeForce™ Go 6800

04-07-2006, 09:13 PM	#4 (permalink)
Dilbert1234567 Devils Cabana Boy Location: Central Coast CA	take the hard drive out, mount it in a working computer, copy the files off anyway you can to save them, if you have a program like Norton ghost, you can try to go drive to drive with a fresh drive, this will make a copy of the hard drive, you can take the copied drive and place it back in and boot as if nothing ever happened. If you don’t have Norton ghost, there are other free programs out there that do the same thing, but I don’t have any name off the top of my head. __________________ Donate Blood! "Love is not finding the perfect person, but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen

04-08-2006, 12:53 AM	#6 (permalink)
Smackre Addict	it could use a fresh install anyways. ill just copy my documents off of it and reinstall windows on the new drive. __________________ Intel® Pentium® M Processor 730 (1.60 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB) 17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen XGA+ Display 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2 Dimm 256MB NVIDA® GeForce™ Go 6800

04-07-2006, 07:55 PM	#2 (permalink)
xepherys <3 TFP Location: 17TLH2445607250	Almost definitely, yes! The ticking can be caused by a couple of different things, but all of them spell a soon-to-be dead hard drive. Sorry... :-/

04-07-2006, 08:02 PM	#3 (permalink)
Plaid13 I want a Plaid crayon	yep the one hard drive that i had die ticked for about a week before it finaly died on me.

04-07-2006, 09:26 PM	#5 (permalink)
MikeSty The Computer Kid :D Location: 127.0.0.1	Heh. My secondary has been ticking for months now. I backed it up but it has cleared up. It only ticks occasionally now. But to be sure, back it up ASAP!

04-08-2006, 01:06 PM	#8 (permalink)
MikeSty The Computer Kid :D Location: 127.0.0.1	Hehe, when I first built my machine I swore I'd reformat tri-annually. It's been over a year and I'm still working off the original install