Sounds like it's dead, especially with the dreaded clicking noise. From my experience so far, when a drive makes clicking noise it's a certain death.

hi guys...wanna ask...i got 2 dead hdd...one is 250Gb sata (recently) n another one is 20Gb IDE (been dead for like 3 or 4 years now lol)...

is it possible to recover the files? heard there's a service for this kinda thing...but how much does it cost?

thx...

This post has been edited by ray148: Aug 13 2010, 08:13 AM

Recover service is very expensive, unless yours is those very important files that can't be replaced. Else, get 2 new HDDs and make RAID1 in future, the failure of both HDDs are much lower.

It cost more than a bomb.
If doesnt have any important data then just forget about it

Yes dreaded clicking noises is a sign of a close to death HDD
Faster backup data

The one I'm having now is when I run antivirus scan on my PC, HDD make some sound (like u forgot to enter clutch when shift gear). Dying sign?
or it's normal?

Continuous klak klak sound right? It will go down soon

ya, klak klak sound, for like ~1mins, at the beginning only

It may be a sign. Better do a backup of your most important stuff now. And if you have only one HDD, it may well be time to think about buying a new one.

i'm guessing that it'll be 1k at least? /faint

It depends on the capacity of the disk. Bigger disk, higher cost.

hi there,
i had external hdd wd mybook essential,1.5TB.It used up for 250GB to store my movie,music and other documents,so it left 1.2TB.
My question is how do i partition the rest of 1.2TB without erase my 250GB data?

Use a program like swissknife to partition.

My brand new 320gb that I bought few months back also got that klak klak sound when during POST. Well, don't seem to have any bad sectors or hangups so far. Monitoring it using hdtune though now.

Are you having only 1 hard disk? Better to have a large capacity hard disk for backups. Even better you backup datas throughout many computers.

I don't know about Seagate but WD do have 1 klak sound during POST which is normal

I guess every hdd also have that klak klak sound
My 160gb 7200.11 seagate have klak klak sound during high hdd load.

Guys, which brand of HDD do you think is reliable? Hitachi/WD/Samsung? I don't want speed, just want reliability for data.

Reliability is subjective~~
For now, best all rounder would be Samsung

Want reliability?
Backup.

It is not right to pro-claim which brand is more reliable than the others, as the actual defective/RMA rate is never being published or known.

For reliability AND speed, you just can't go wrong with SSDs.

For anything else, you'll need at least two HDDs.