Hard Drive Click
Discussion
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?
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?
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