This Has Gone To Far!!!!!!!!!!!!

[truth-seeker]

Hi.
Remember my posts "somethings going on with this computer" and that the computer would lockup, freeze, display win 3.1 errors, & Win XP errors on a Win98SE machine. It got to a point where I coulden't connect becuase Internet explorer and the dialup signin would be minumumized and on opening would dissapear off the screen I coulde minumize then and I'd be back to stage one. any hard disk scan could not be completed withuot the normally quiet hard drive do a very loud CLICK-CLICK witch is very strange.
I've put in a different hard drive and all those problems are gone.
Any Ideas whats the problem on the original HD? It's still bootable.
Thanks!

[Bill in SD, CA]

Sounds like the drive is slowly dying.

Click click could be the sound of the armature trying and failing to move.

Bill

[Mickwish]

Well, if you reinstalled windoze it could have been a virus or trojan causing those issues. Be careful connecting the old HDD back up to the PC as it might still be copied over to the new drive if it was.

Cheers
Mick

[Mickwish]

What kind of HDD was it? An IBM DeskStar, by any chance?

Cheers
Mick

[nomaxim]

Originally posted by Mickwish
What kind of HDD was it? An IBM DeskStar, by any chance?

Cheers
Mick

Some more system info would be must helpful?

HDD?
RAM
OS
MoBo

Things like that!
Or a link to your prior thread.

[Medic911]

All in all I would say to just part ways with that Hard Drive. It just not worth the trouble putting valuable data on it and having it crash on you.

I agree with Bill, most likey an armature going bad.

Hard drives are cheap these days. Probably just get a new one. If it is a virus that will also heal your problems. But this kinda sounds like a physical hard drive failure.

Just remember to play it safe so you don't lose valuable data.

[Bill in SD, CA]

I beleive this is the link to the other thread.

http://www.techimo.com/forum/showthr...threadid=94923

Bill

[Wild_Ani]

I had a Hard drive do the same thing to me. Lots of clicking and restarting, then one day it finally died. Like Medic911 said their cheep nowadays. Id say get a new one cause IMO its gonna die soon.

[truth-seeker]

Hi!
I'm not sure if it is a dying hard drive, it was an WD 8.1Gb hard drive, but the one I'm running now is an 1.5 Conners hard drive, (I'm just using this until I can get my hands on an 80GB ) the sys specs are:
Amd XP +1700
ASUS a7v333
256mb ram
1 hard drive (8.1 OR 1.5 , thanks for the reminder! I don't have them physically connected at the same time )
win 98SE
Zonealarm
adaware
AVG.
I would only do the clicking if it was scanning for viruses, and when I'd do a full scan in adaware AVG would say it found a virusCOM called textcon in adawares cach. searches for this file has proved fruitless.
I hope this will help!
Thanks

[Bill in SD, CA]

Have you run WD's diagnostic utility?

The drive is old.

Bill