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Thanks to both replies. For some reason, it wouldn't recognise that the new primary hard drive was partitioned. Luckily, I'd backed up most of my data. So far, the only thing I've lost is MP3s. I'm now in the process of rebuilding the machine. Looks like I'll be needing those KB articles so...

Hi, I'm looking for some advice on how to do the following: I've got two hard disks in my machine at the moment. The primary (80gb) with Windows on it (this has two partitions: C which is huge and D which is basically a scratch disk) and the secondary (120gb) with data and backups (4...

UPDATE: The hard drive is still making the noise every 5 minutes, even though it's now had at least 10 power ons. I don't think it's anything too serious, as all the disk tests come back okay, however it *is* annoying. I'm considering a rebuild and then trying to figure out if it's an...

bcastner and Dreamland... Thanks very much for the informative replies. I have a few points/replies to some of the interesting things you've highlighted...these may or may not be of any merit. 1. I had the drive connected up with the power cable in but the data cable out and it didn't seem to...

ADDITION I forgot to mention, that the disk is practically emtpy. When I was getting the sound, there were only a couple of empty folders on the drive.

Hi, I originally had this down as a problem with my new 120GB Maxtor hard drive. However, I've tried the drive in two separate machines and it works fine. The problem I'm experiencing is that every 5 minutes, almost to the second, I'm experiencing a 2-5 second hard drive sound like a...

I've had the systems engineers in my work look at the drive. They can't see anything out of the ordinary. Although, I couldn't replicate the repeated, 5 minute cycle of click-purr-purr-click. They dumped a couple of hundred MB of data on it, listened to it and it seemed fine. So...the drive has...

Thanks again for the insight, I really appreciate it. It could just be me describing the noise badly. It's sort of like a 'soft click-purr-purr-soft click' type thing. It might be something normal that I'm misinterpreting for a problem due to my problems with the Hitachi. Also - I should mention...

UPDATE: With the new hard drive (the Maxtor), I'm getting a less annoying, but still noticeable noise..something like a purr and a click...it doesn't sound too serious - like the noise you'd expect when it was about to fail. Like I said it's fairly quiet and if I was writing to the drive I...

Thanks for the replies. I just took it back to the place I bought it and they exchanged it for another one. I decided against getting another Deskstar and opted for the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120GB. Installed it and it seems to be running okay so far. Fingers crossed. Thanks for the info.

Hi, I'm hoping that someone here can help me. I recently installed a Hitachi Deskstar 120GB 7200rpm hard disk as a slave to my existing 80GB drive. They're both on as Cable Select and the new one was recognised, it's been assigned a drive letter and works fine. I've saved to it successfully...