mello dude Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 My Dell PC is about 3 years old with XP on it. Its starting to make a dull repetitive metalic sound once in a while - seems in sink while a hard drive spinning. Is the HD going out and what do I do to clone what I have to a new HD settup? I can easily take out old and put in new, but I dont want to lose my programs/data/settup- Yeah, I'm PC tech challenged. Thanks in advance for any advice/help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 Harddrive is dying. Backup data ASAP. The sound is the heads hitting the platter. Bet it sounds like a nickel when dropped onto a table? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrillo Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 buy new hard drive. plug in new hard drive to secondary IDE/SATA connectorboot off of clonezilla cdclone old hard drive to new hard drivetake out old hard drive, then make new hard drive primaryboot.fyi, if you can hear the hard drive making noises, you probably have very little time left Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrillo Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 lol.. casper beat me to first post... OR needs to start a tech support service... try to call a tech support line and get an answer in 13 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mello dude Posted March 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 Harddrive is dying. Backup data ASAP. The sound is the heads hitting the platter. Bet it sounds like a nickel when dropped onto a table?yeah - sounds something like that...... fooook! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strictly Street Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 The click of death. Don't waste time, when it finally goes, its gone all the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmagicglock Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 buy a mac = problem solved Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 buy a mac = problem solvedHey asshat..... Mac's have hard drives too!Seriously though, backing up the MAC stuff should be easy enough, since there aren't very many programs that run on a Mac (without a wimdows VM running) that putting it back top original will be close to what you'd have anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 It's probably not a bad idea to have a fresh installation of windows anyway..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyco1 Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 When you take the old one out, open it up and scavenge the magnets, they're super strong and come in really handy. You may need a dremmel to cut slots in the screw heads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 buy a solid state media harddrive = problem solvedFixed that for you...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 lol.. casper beat me to first post... OR needs to start a tech support service... try to call a tech support line and get an answer in 13 minutes No doubt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flounder Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 Only problem with solid state at this time is that its damn near impossible to do data recovery or forensics analysis on them due to the way data is stored. Once you deleted something from the drive, your basically fooked and wont be getting it back...This is both good and bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vw151 Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 There are so many IT geeks on this site it's ridiculous. If it was me. I'd buy a new Hard drive and one of these thingshttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156102&cm_re=usb_to_IDE-_-12-156-102-_-Productput the new hard drive into the computer. Put a fresh copy of windows on and then use the USB to IDE/sata adapter to copy files from failing drive to new drive. Of course there are many other ways of doing this as well.....BTW, was the guy who said buy a mac serious? That was possibly one of the dumbest things I've seen posted in awhile. My Mac is currently dead due to a bad Hard drive FYI MAC fanboys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBRzach Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 Microcenter has stores in Cincinnati and Columbus. They have very good deals and many times I have seen them beat Newegg's prices.www.microcenter.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newOldUser Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 If you think the sound is linked to your hard drive then you'd better replace it because it's going to fail. At the vey least make sure you have current backups. The Clonezilla CD mentioned by Wrillo can be good but some find it hard to use.Take a look at this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T. Most hard drives in the last 5 years have this self monitoring technology in them. I can't recommend a windows program to use to read the log but I'm sure you can find one on the net or someone here will know. This s.m.a.r.t. log will show you if you have a bad spot(s) on your drive. I'd recommend everyone look at it occasionally while your drive can still spin. Once the drive stops spinng and starts clicking then it's too late. Salvage the magnets (good for making your own tank bag) and use the platters for the face of a clock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vw151 Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 Microcenter has stores in Cincinnati and Columbus. They have very good deals and many times I have seen them beat Newegg's prices.www.microcenter.comyes, buy the stuff where ever you want. newegg just has the easiest stuff to link to IMHO. I go to microcenter on bethel all the time and they have the usb to SATA/IDE adapters and they have hard drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbluebird Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9dbMKtZ4OI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmagicglock Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 Fixed that for you......thanks you knew where I was going with that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 yes, buy the stuff where ever you want. newegg just has the easiest stuff to link to IMHO. I go to microcenter on bethel all the time and they have the usb to SATA/IDE adapters and they have hard drives.I bought a 2 TB Hitachi drive there for $150, now I think they have it for $130! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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