Author Topic: H/D grinding after reboot !! (Read 1755 times)

TOFFEEMAN1878 · « **on:** August 07, 2006, 12:32 »

Settled down after several reboot attemps including getting a message to insert system disk ,any clues to what could be wrong ??...Jim

Simon · « **Reply #1 on:** August 07, 2006, 12:37 »

My immediate guess is that the hard drive is on the way out - suggest you start backing up any valuable data while you still can. :|

TOFFEEMAN1878 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 07, 2006, 12:39 »

It's less than a year old Simon :evil:

Sandra · « **Reply #3 on:** August 07, 2006, 12:53 »

Hard drives can fail well inside their warranty period Jim.

I like Western Digital drives as I have found them to be the most reliable.

I had a WD 250 gig 16mb SATA 2 drive fail earlier this year that came with a 3 year warranty yet it failed within 3 months :shock:

TOFFEEMAN1878 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 07, 2006, 13:03 »

Boo whoo whoo ,looks like I have some serious backing up to do !!

Clive · « **Reply #5 on:** August 07, 2006, 13:26 »

I had one fail after just 4 weeks!

Simon · « **Reply #6 on:** August 07, 2006, 13:54 »

Sorry it's bad news, Jim. At least, if it's less than a year old, you should be able to get a replacement under warranty.

gmax · « **Reply #7 on:** August 07, 2006, 15:19 »

I like Western Digital drives as I have found them to be the most reliable and
maxtor the worst, but dont waste a dead harddrive pull it apart and get the
magnet out, their a real strong magnet

TOFFEEMAN1878 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 07, 2006, 18:22 »

Thanks for the replies guys& girls , it's a WD 80GB with only 23% used shouldn't take too long to transfer all the data !!
Thanks again ....Jim