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?
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.
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."
...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."
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.
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
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