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  1. spazzo

    VIRUS DESTROYED MY HD! THE HD DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE!

    We never finished running scandisk on our clicking hard drive, as it ran slower all the time as new bad sectors popped up as we watched. I ran Norton, no viruses were detected. The rescue disk was unsuccessful. The hard drive was really HOT, almost burned fingers. I've already sent it back...
  2. spazzo

    Click.. click noise from hard drive ?? Please help...

    I concur with all the provious advice. We just sent a 20GB Western Digital (manufactured Aug 2000) back that fried after sounding like a crazed turn signal. It was HOT! Once it starts clicking it's like a bomb counting down. You never know how long it will last. This one started sporadic...
  3. spazzo

    Does anyone have experience of upgrading hard drive on Packard Bell?

    I am writing this on a Packard Bell Pentium II that now has two hard drives: a 13 gb and a 20 gb. My hubby is the expert who advises that you will need a controller card because your motherboard won't handle anything over about 6 gb. Theoretically, after you put in a controller card you...
  4. spazzo

    VIRUS DESTROYED MY HD! THE HD DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE!

    I found this forum while searching for information about clicking hard drives. My daughter's computer is doing the clicking thing, and scandisk was showing some bad sectors, but scandisk was running slower and slower. Her computer is a 733Mhz Pentium III, Windows 98, 256 K memory, with Western...

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