Hello everyone I have dealt with many harddrive over the past 15 years die on me or start to break and need replacements so none of this is new but I figured I would share my problems with the community in hopes of helping myself and anyone else interested.
Problem is that my current 1 TB Data drive on daily use started to make clicking, clonking, and almost like read/knocking sounds two days ago at in the evening. I thought to myself o this sounds weird and it caused my entire system windows envirnment to freeze up for a few seconds then return to normal.
After the return to normal my drive would dissappear or for example my torrent downloads would show as invalid or missing file or something along those lines. So i rebooted and the drive worked fine again but still made clicking sounds here and there.
Every so often it would get stuck on a seek/click like sound and even with a reboot it did not stop it I had to do a system shut down let everyone power off then turn it back on. All of the above was over a few hours 1.5 days ago.
I wokeup yesturday to find that my drive was totally not working. The drive was not being recognized in windows and disk manager asked me to initalize it which also did not work.
I have also tried a usb drive connection thingy and again it will not fully functional and needed to initalize for anything to happen so instead of throwing it against the wall I took a break unhooked it plugged my semi empty thank god extra 1TB drive into the same cable and space the broken drive was and booted up to test to make sure everything was stable and it was.
So at this point I know for a fact there is something wrong with my Seagate 1TB drive. So what did I do well I removed it from the case and gave it one last try with all my windows setup ready to transfer any data I could even if it was a folder at a time. So I plugged in the drive vertical off the wood floor powered the system on and long and behold the drive was fully functional in regards to opening it up and opening files.
However before I got to happy I checked disk management and once again it wouldnt let me do anything because the disk needed to be initalized again. So i said screw this and went to backup my data since the drive was working and was not making any click sounds.
Several hours later I successfully backed up the majority of my 1TB of data to my other drive and my broken Seagate 1TB drive is still functioning as a hdd but is also not initalized in disk management.
So this is the story of my weekend and I look for your advice on what to do next.
I did run a full diskcheck and fix and scan for errors 2 times on the broken drive and eventually had to do it in safe mode because windows 7 was using all my ram 8GB and turned my screen a lovely black so I could not do anything or see anything. Research online told me this is almost normal thanks to windows 7 lovely new method of check disk (retarded) and well I said screw this went into safe mode because some suggested it might work better. It did not but I let it run over night while i slept and i wokeup to a drive that had 0 errors or issues.
So the drive must have a mechanical issue or something along those lines. My initalial reaction at this point was to
1. BACKUP THE DATA
2. PERFORM ALL THE TESTS I AM CAPABLE OF
3. GET AN RMA ASAP
4. HOPE IT WORKS OUT.
I turn to you guys now! thanks
ps - i will try and list and answer any and all questions below because I like you love solving issues and always want to get down to the bottom of things.
Problem is that my current 1 TB Data drive on daily use started to make clicking, clonking, and almost like read/knocking sounds two days ago at in the evening. I thought to myself o this sounds weird and it caused my entire system windows envirnment to freeze up for a few seconds then return to normal.
After the return to normal my drive would dissappear or for example my torrent downloads would show as invalid or missing file or something along those lines. So i rebooted and the drive worked fine again but still made clicking sounds here and there.
Every so often it would get stuck on a seek/click like sound and even with a reboot it did not stop it I had to do a system shut down let everyone power off then turn it back on. All of the above was over a few hours 1.5 days ago.
I wokeup yesturday to find that my drive was totally not working. The drive was not being recognized in windows and disk manager asked me to initalize it which also did not work.
I have also tried a usb drive connection thingy and again it will not fully functional and needed to initalize for anything to happen so instead of throwing it against the wall I took a break unhooked it plugged my semi empty thank god extra 1TB drive into the same cable and space the broken drive was and booted up to test to make sure everything was stable and it was.
So at this point I know for a fact there is something wrong with my Seagate 1TB drive. So what did I do well I removed it from the case and gave it one last try with all my windows setup ready to transfer any data I could even if it was a folder at a time. So I plugged in the drive vertical off the wood floor powered the system on and long and behold the drive was fully functional in regards to opening it up and opening files.
However before I got to happy I checked disk management and once again it wouldnt let me do anything because the disk needed to be initalized again. So i said screw this and went to backup my data since the drive was working and was not making any click sounds.
Several hours later I successfully backed up the majority of my 1TB of data to my other drive and my broken Seagate 1TB drive is still functioning as a hdd but is also not initalized in disk management.
So this is the story of my weekend and I look for your advice on what to do next.
I did run a full diskcheck and fix and scan for errors 2 times on the broken drive and eventually had to do it in safe mode because windows 7 was using all my ram 8GB and turned my screen a lovely black so I could not do anything or see anything. Research online told me this is almost normal thanks to windows 7 lovely new method of check disk (retarded) and well I said screw this went into safe mode because some suggested it might work better. It did not but I let it run over night while i slept and i wokeup to a drive that had 0 errors or issues.
So the drive must have a mechanical issue or something along those lines. My initalial reaction at this point was to
1. BACKUP THE DATA
2. PERFORM ALL THE TESTS I AM CAPABLE OF
3. GET AN RMA ASAP
4. HOPE IT WORKS OUT.
I turn to you guys now! thanks
ps - i will try and list and answer any and all questions below because I like you love solving issues and always want to get down to the bottom of things.
