2nd drive causes system freeze

kurtismonger · 07-09-2008, 06:50 PM

I have a HP desktop with 2 drives. The second, used for backup of the first, is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160GB. Yesterday it started making a freaky sound, actually two sounds. The first is the typical HD mechanical failure sound a loud click. Right after there is a very squeak which sounds like a soft beep. I'm not ware these drives have any sort of beeper in them so I assume its a squeak. Anyway, the computer will boot and run fine, but every couple of minutes the drive will start making those sounds for maybe 30 seconds to a minutes. This will happen a couple times over say 10 minutes, and then it will do it, but then the system will also completely freeze. No BSOD, just a frozen screen and the computer wont respond to anything except a hard reset.
Fortunately, the drive is my backup, but I'm surprised as its the first Seagate that has failed on me. I'm also curious about the beep sound and why the failed 2nd drive could cause a system freeze since there are no programs actually installed on it.

**Deleted090308** · 07-10-2008, 08:38 AM

Hi,

Sounds like the second drive is going bad.
Copy all important data off of that drive ASAP - then run Seatools for DOS to check the HDD for errors.

07-09-2008, 06:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
kurtismonger Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 78 OS: XP Pro	2nd drive causes system freeze I have a HP desktop with 2 drives. The second, used for backup of the first, is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160GB. Yesterday it started making a freaky sound, actually two sounds. The first is the typical HD mechanical failure sound a loud click. Right after there is a very squeak which sounds like a soft beep. I'm not ware these drives have any sort of beeper in them so I assume its a squeak. Anyway, the computer will boot and run fine, but every couple of minutes the drive will start making those sounds for maybe 30 seconds to a minutes. This will happen a couple times over say 10 minutes, and then it will do it, but then the system will also completely freeze. No BSOD, just a frozen screen and the computer wont respond to anything except a hard reset. Fortunately, the drive is my backup, but I'm surprised as its the first Seagate that has failed on me. I'm also curious about the beep sound and why the failed 2nd drive could cause a system freeze since there are no programs actually installed on it.

07-10-2008, 08:38 AM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: 2nd drive causes system freeze Hi, Sounds like the second drive is going bad. Copy all important data off of that drive ASAP - then run Seatools for DOS to check the HDD for errors.