Hard drive clicking

Hi,

I installed Vista Premium 64bit last week,

Since then one of my hard drives has been giving an intermittent
click.

It never did this before so im just wondering if it isnt something
vista is doing as it indexes the drives etc for seaches n stuff.

I have one 200gb IDE, one 250gb IDE with a 500gb SATA.

Anyone else come across this problem?

Regards

Tam

I have a WD 500GB SATA that click and spins down more than it should.
My WD Raptor doesn't do this.

I know this doesn't help but at least your not the only one.



"Tam" <> wrote in message
news:f9c3def5-3296-445e-acb4-...
> Hi,
>
> I installed Vista Premium 64bit last week,
>
> Since then one of my hard drives has been giving an intermittent
> click.
>
> It never did this before so im just wondering if it isnt something
> vista is doing as it indexes the drives etc for seaches n stuff.
>
> I have one 200gb IDE, one 250gb IDE with a 500gb SATA.
>
> Anyone else come across this problem?
>
> Regards
>
> Tam

Tam <> wrote in news:f9c3def5-3296-445e-acb4-
:

> Hi,
>
> I installed Vista Premium 64bit last week,
>
> Since then one of my hard drives has been giving an intermittent
> click.
>
> It never did this before so im just wondering if it isnt something
> vista is doing as it indexes the drives etc for seaches n stuff.
>
> I have one 200gb IDE, one 250gb IDE with a 500gb SATA.
>
> Anyone else come across this problem?
>
> Regards
>
> Tam

Not to solve your problem, if it is a problem, but you can d/l a free,
and excellent utility called AIDA32. It will tell you all about your
hardware.

There is a section within AIDA32 that reads the S.M.A.R.T. info stored in
the hard drive.(Let's say that S.M.A.R.T is the HD self-monitoring itself
for issues.) You can at least check to see if there is anything reported
there.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html

Additionally, the HD manufacturers usually have a utility that can be run
that does a multilevel performance/operational check of the HD in
question.

Thankyou for your responses

Regards

Tam

On Jan 3, 1:27 am, DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h....@a.d.e.l.p.h.i.a.n.e.t>
wrote:
> Tam <taming...@yahoo.com> wrote in news:f9c3def5-3296-445e-acb4-
> 6bee9693f...@v4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I installed Vista Premium 64bit last week,
>
> > Since then one of myharddrives has been giving an intermittent
> > click.
>
> > It never did this before so im just wondering if it isnt something
> > vista is doing as it indexes the drives etc for seaches n stuff.
>
> > I have one 200gb IDE, one 250gb IDE with a 500gb SATA.
>
> > Anyone else come across this problem?
>
> > Regards
>
> > Tam
>
> Not to solve your problem, if it is a problem, but you can d/l a free,
> and excellent utility called AIDA32. It will tell you all about your
> hardware.
>
> There is a section within AIDA32 that reads the S.M.A.R.T. info stored in
> theharddrive.(Let's say that S.M.A.R.T is the HD self-monitoring itself
> for issues.) You can at least check to see if there is anything reported
> there.
>
> http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html
>
> Additionally, the HD manufacturers usually have a utility that can be run
> that does a multilevel performance/operational check of the HD in
> question.

"DanS" <> wrote in message
news:Xns9A19D00593FE0thisnthatadelphianet@207.46.2 48.16...
> Tam <> wrote in news:f9c3def5-3296-445e-acb4-
> :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed Vista Premium 64bit last week,
>>
>> Since then one of my hard drives has been giving an intermittent
>> click.
>>
>> It never did this before so im just wondering if it isnt something
>> vista is doing as it indexes the drives etc for seaches n stuff.
>>
>> I have one 200gb IDE, one 250gb IDE with a 500gb SATA.
>>
>> Anyone else come across this problem?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tam
>
> Not to solve your problem, if it is a problem, but you can d/l a free,
> and excellent utility called AIDA32. It will tell you all about your
> hardware.
>
> There is a section within AIDA32 that reads the S.M.A.R.T. info stored in
> the hard drive.(Let's say that S.M.A.R.T is the HD self-monitoring itself
> for issues.) You can at least check to see if there is anything reported
> there.
>
> http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html
>
> Additionally, the HD manufacturers usually have a utility that can be run
> that does a multilevel performance/operational check of the HD in
> question.

Unfortunately there are a few caveats here. Aida32 is old. Therefore the
info it provides is limited. Some of the info it provides is wrong. For
example, in mine the results for my fan speeds is WAY off. Like on the
order of 4000+ RPM. Probably more important, if you are running an nVidia
based chipset, you will not get ANY S.M.A.R.T info whatsoever, because
nVidia does not support it on their current drivers. I ought to know, just
asked them WHEN they were, as I use Everest Ultimate which is a MUCH better
program to monitor my system. There ARE workarounds for the S.M.A.R.T issue
with the nVidia stuff, but they result in either performance degradation,
driver hacks, and/or system instability.

Now, as for the clicking...

As it is intermittent, it is more than likely the drive indexing, or being
accessed for what ever reason. If it were the notorious "click of death" you
would be hearing it almost constantly. The "Death whine with click of death"
is also a good one...

But just to be safe, do a deep scan of the drive(s) checking for errors and
bad sectors.

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On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:25:33 -0800, DarkSentinel quoth:

>
> But just to be safe, do a deep scan of the drive(s) checking for errors and
> bad sectors.

and perhaps back up anything important. that would be the very _first_
thing _I_ would do anyway. it would scare the crap out of me to have a
hard-drive a-clicking!

Felmon

I having the same problem again now that i reinstalled vista. Last month
i spent about 3 hours researching the problem and found that a specific
update was causing it. Once i uninstalled it, there was no more
clicking. I believe it was in the microsoft fourms but i can't seem to
find it anymore. What it does is shut down my drive and restarts then
there is a 3 second delay in whatever app I'm using. This damaged my
raptor drive and had to send it in for warranty, now I'm afraid its
going to do it again =\

Help me look for the update to remove, if i find it ill post it.


--
jpc

Found it, you can read more about it here.

'Re: Hard drive spins up and computer sluggish after installing
official KB938979 - TechNet Forums' (http://tinyurl.com/2hzudj)


Hope it works for you too


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jpc

Tam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed Vista Premium 64bit last week,
>
> Since then one of my hard drives has been giving an intermittent
> click.
>
> It never did this before so im just wondering if it isnt something
> vista is doing as it indexes the drives etc for seaches n stuff.
>
> I have one 200gb IDE, one 250gb IDE with a 500gb SATA.
>
> Anyone else come across this problem?
>
> Regards
>
> Tam

Vista stops the drives from spining by default after some time... (VERY
STUPID IF YOU ASK ME!) you can go to the power options and check..

but clicking usually means the hard drive is dying.. if you have
something very important, back it up NOW, then see if the power option
settings will solve the issue...

dont even think about it.. do a backup NOW if you have important stuff..

better safe than sorry

I would normally agree if i heard the "click of death" but this isnt
that, its an a sudden stop (1 click) of the hard drive and then it
spins up again. Since i just got a new raptor drive i doubt a format
and reinstall of vista would cause my drive to go bad. Its been about 2
hours since i uninstalled that update and so far no more clicking. Plus
if you look at the thread i linked you'll see how many people are
having this issue. :frown:

I did change the power options on my hard drive so it wouldnt shut them
down but that didnt fix the problem. Plus i think its good to shut down
my secondary drives when not in use, since i just use them for media
storage.


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jpc