Hard Drive Click

[E38]

My computer is a 3 year old self build, and have updated the GPU and RAM over the last year.

Back in ~March one my storage hard drives started clicking and acting REALLY slow. I feared the click of death, but I turned out to go away if I turned the drive upside down. I bought a new hard drive anyway and retired the old one.

After installing Vista on this new hard drive, about 2 months ago this new boot hard drive has started to click. Putting the drive at an obscure angle fixed the problem up untill around a week ago, where it now clicks and acts very slow at any angle.

The odd thing is that when I switch to using the old XP boot on another HDD, the clicking is only very occasional and I can access the quirky drive without too much trouble (not that fast, but acceptable as storage).

I could get a another new HDD but I suspect its something else. Perhaps a failing PSU, motherboard or even dodgy SATA cables.

Any ideas?

[Tycho]

Backup NOW!!!! Apologies if I'm preaching to the converted.

[Silent1]

buy a hitachi HD next time, and remember the freezer trick for when this one goes bang.

[sunbeam_alpine]

^^^^ Do what they said - back up!

In addition, I would suggest swapping out the power supply - this could be causing your problems.

PS A hard drive less than a year old MUST be under warranty.

(/PISTONHEADS MODE ON)

A hard drive at the weekend (preferably with the top down) is more fun!

(/PISTONHEADS MODE OFF)