Hi!
Recently I have been having problems with my Western Digital 20gig hard drive. Now it doesn’t do it all the time...... but I thought I might as well get it checked out just in case.
Basically when I leave my computer on for about 5 hours or more (sometimes even less than an hour!) it makes a very weird sound. It sounds like it boots up again even though im in windows already and makes a beeping sound... like it’s skipping. After the 1st beeping sound I have about 5-10 sec's before my computer crashes and I have to power it off by the plug. I think that it’s over heating so I just leave my sides of my case off but when I touch it is RED hot so im confused. Another weird thing is that after I power off I wait till my HDD is cold before powering back on. Some times it works and some times it just starts back up doing the beeping sound......so the thing that I found out is that I have to disconnect the power supply and data cable to the HDD and plug it back in and then power on and then it works with out fail again till the next time.......
Is it an early sign of the HDD failing?
Or is it just over heating like im thinking?
Or maybe dust gets into the cable connections?
*Sigh*
If it is failing id like to know because if it is id like to save the files before it dose finally bite the dust!
thanks in advance!
