Ticking from H/D

[DennisTheMenace]

Ive been hearing some odd noises just recently and have tracked down to the hard drive ,the light on the tower comes on bright then it seems as if its searching light goes dim ticks and goes off is this thing about to write me a dear john ???

[Big Al.]

Mine did a few weks back.

DO A BACK UP AND DO IT NOW! OH .

[DennisTheMenace]

cheers Al will do

[DennisTheMenace]

err how do i do a back up ???

clicking like a goodun now

would a defrag etc help it ?

[Roadrage]

when they start clicking Its ushally a sign that It about to die soon


so back it up before it does.

[squirrelz]

A defrag is likely to push it over the edge rather than help. Defragging the disk causes quite a lot of sustained disk activity.....

Re. backing up - well you need something with as much storage as you have used on your current disk. Either another disk, a tape drive, a dvd writer+lots of disks+some software to span disks, or 1000's of floppy disks

[DennisTheMenace]

Its still going ....Bless .
Now can i put a new H/D in and just transfer everything across ? or is that not possible ?

[Roadrage]

DennisTheMenace said:

Its still going ....Bless . Now can i put a new H/D in and just transfer everything across ? or is that not possible ?

sadly its not that simple

1 you can just back up inportaint files

reinstall the new one and move inportaint files to new drive

or
2 get something like norton ghost and image the whole drive.

and right the image to the new one.

[ErnestM]

Denny - Norton Ghost is fantastic, but Symantec have recently purchased Powerquest software which gave them the technology to put out this little beauty:

www.symantec.com/driveimage/index.html

BTW - sustained disk activity can also be caused by viruses that have their own built in SMTP server...

ErnestM

[Roadrage]

ErnestM said:

Denny - Norton Ghost is fantastic, but Symantec have recently purchased Powerquest software which gave them the technology to put out this little beauty: <a href="http://www.symantec.com/driveimage/index.html">www.symantec.com/driveimage/index.html</a> BTW - sustained disk activity can also be caused by viruses that have their own built in SMTP server... ErnestM

looks usefull ill have to look on our main dump see if If I can find it.

I normally use Acronis TrueImage.

>> Edited by Roadrage on Thursday 4th March 08:16

[pdV6]

Roadrage said:

DennisTheMenace said: Its still going ....Bless . Now can i put a new H/D in and just transfer everything across ? or is that not possible ? sadly its not that simple

Oh but it can be! Try Western Digital's DataLifeguard - it does a fantastic job of migrating an old HD to a new one. Might have to buy a WD disk for it to work, but that's no bad thing as I've never had one fail yet.

[DennisTheMenace]

Ive had no noise from the HD so far tonight strange

perhaps it was low on electric and it wasnt reaching the tappets

[warmfuzzies]

If it's an IBM (deathstar)or Hitachi, kiss it goodbye, I'd give you a month a best.
I always use Norton Ghost, backing and restoring takes 30-40 mins for about 12GB on a double partition.
I restore the partitions every 2-3months to get rid of junk. quick dirty sledgehammer stuff.

Kevin

[tvrforever]

It's ticking is it?

Are there any wires coming out from it?

If so disconnect immediately, put it in a sturdy box, drive it as far North as you can go, dig hole, place box in hole and cover. Drive a fast South as possible...

You just can't be too paranoid in these security risk days can you?

[Oh sorry for a moment I thought we were in the USA - seriously, backup now as it will packup shortly]

[sbarks]

hi

see my post

hard drive upgrade

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=83933&f=95&h=0


runs thru copying data without 3rd party soft


sbarks