Is my Harddrive failing?

reflexsa · 05-13-2008, 04:07 PM

Hi all,

When my computer is running I hear a tick noise once every now and then, it is unpredictable and happens very seldomly(twice an hour).

I have run scandisk on all my drives and no bad sectors were reported. Scandisk did fix some other things like incorrectly marked free space or something.

Is there an easy way of discovering which drive it is? Besides disconnecting them.

I'm just hoping that the tick is not a sign of a soon to fail HD, as I have had no problems reading from any of the drives to date.

Thanks for any help in advance.

**kodi** · 05-13-2008, 04:13 PM

Download your hardrive manufacturers Diagnostic utility and check your drives

reflexsa · 05-13-2008, 04:43 PM

Thanks, I am downloading them quickly. Ill let you know the results tomorrow sometime

reflexsa · 05-14-2008, 01:14 AM

I have 2 Seagate drives and 1 Hitachi. I used the seagate program for all of them, as I could not get the Hitchai program to work with a stiffy drive or blank cd. All drives passed Seagates "Long generic" test.

reflexsa · 05-14-2008, 04:30 AM

Any ideas?

05-13-2008, 04:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
reflexsa Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 9 OS: Windows XP SP2	Is my Harddrive failing? Hi all, When my computer is running I hear a tick noise once every now and then, it is unpredictable and happens very seldomly(twice an hour). I have run scandisk on all my drives and no bad sectors were reported. Scandisk did fix some other things like incorrectly marked free space or something. Is there an easy way of discovering which drive it is? Besides disconnecting them. I'm just hoping that the tick is not a sign of a soon to fail HD, as I have had no problems reading from any of the drives to date. Thanks for any help in advance.

05-13-2008, 04:13 PM	#2 (permalink)
kodi Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Sydney Australia Posts: 6,328 OS: Windows Vista Ultimate, XP Professional My System	Re: Is my Harddrive failing? Download your hardrive manufacturers Diagnostic utility and check your drives __________________ Brian

05-13-2008, 04:43 PM	#3 (permalink)
reflexsa Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 9 OS: Windows XP SP2	Re: Is my Harddrive failing? Thanks, I am downloading them quickly. Ill let you know the results tomorrow sometime

05-14-2008, 01:14 AM	#4 (permalink)
reflexsa Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 9 OS: Windows XP SP2	Re: Is my Harddrive failing? I have 2 Seagate drives and 1 Hitachi. I used the seagate program for all of them, as I could not get the Hitchai program to work with a stiffy drive or blank cd. All drives passed Seagates "Long generic" test.

05-14-2008, 04:30 AM	#5 (permalink)
reflexsa Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 9 OS: Windows XP SP2	Re: Is my Harddrive failing? Any ideas?