Hard drive clicks

[nag83]

My hard drive starts to click about every second sometimes it only clicks once or twice but when it gets to about six clicks it causes a memory dump. can somebody please tell me why this happens?

 

[ceh4702]

There are lots of drives and computers in the world what do you have? Desktop/laptop?

What kind of drive ? model?

I would be looking to make sure this is not a memory problem also. If it was maybe when the computer boots a different amount of memory may appear. If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.

 

[mudskipper]

BACK UP YOUR DATA RIGHT AWAY!

Your hard drive is developing a mechanical failure. Back up whatever you can and replace it!!!!!

**Because this is a mechanical error, once it goes you are not going to be recovering data (short of sending it to a proffessional data recovery location** ----------------------------------------
Groucho Marx said it best...
"A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five."

 

[mudskipper]

...Of course, I am assuming that by hard drive you mean the hard drive and not the 'tower'!!!!!!!! ----------------------------------------
Groucho Marx said it best...
"A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five."

 

[Snickle]

I'm replacing a drive this weekend because of the 'click'. I get a strange buzz then the click, all activity on the drive stops til after the click. Fortunately it is a slave drive. I think it had/has a problem with heat.

 

[nag83]

thanks for the info. another thing I forgot to mention is that when it reboots after the memory dump the bios doesn't find the hard drive and I have to wait about five minutes and then it will find it. does this change anything. its a Maxtor 40g 7200 rpm and I have a slave Western Digital 20g 7200 rpm. thanks

 

[Snickle]

It's still a drive going bad, now you have to find out which one.

Also, go to

http://www.maxtor.com

and

http://www.wdc.com

and download their diagnostic. If the drives are under warranty, they will need the error code generated in order to issue an RMA.