Skeletor Posted December 17, 2005 Something is wrong with my comp but I can't figure it out. I'm pretty sure it's my hard drive though. Alot of the time, my computer will freeze right after the windows boot screen and whenever it does I hear this *click, whiirrr* noise. If it does make it past windows, my computer will freeze at some random time, seconds, hours, minutes, and make the *click, whirr* noise before it freezes. Any ideas? 0 Share this post Link to post
kc32 Posted December 17, 2005 Yeah, sounds like a hard drive crashing. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bank Posted December 17, 2005 Maybe one of your fans is overspinning, IE, getting so fast that it stops, although I have really no idea... 0 Share this post Link to post
leileilol Posted December 18, 2005 definitely a mechanical probelm, i had this happen with a new maxtor 40gb hd in 2001 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted December 18, 2005 Sounds like a dying hard drive (which sounds not very much like a dying giraffe). 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted December 18, 2005 My hard drive died once. The pain never really goes away. 0 Share this post Link to post
leileilol Posted December 18, 2005 well if the hd's still alive right now BACK UP YOUR STUFF WHILE YOU STILL CAN DAMNIT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO REPLACE THE DEFECTIVE MODEL DRIVE WITH A GOOD ONE 0 Share this post Link to post
Bank Posted December 18, 2005 gargoylol said:BACK UP YOUR STUFF WHILE YOU STILL CAN DAMNIT "She can't take much more captain!" 0 Share this post Link to post
baronofhell Posted December 18, 2005 I had the same problem a while back, and you know what? It was my hard drive...better prepare for certain DOOM. 0 Share this post Link to post
exp(x) Posted December 18, 2005 My old (1997) hard drive started doing this last year, so I unplugged it, blew a ton of dust off the PCB, plugged it back in, and it has worked fine since. 0 Share this post Link to post
Udderdude Posted December 18, 2005 Buy a USB HD enclosure and a new HD. Backup everything important onto this HD. Buy a new HD and replace the one in your PC. Copy everything from the backup HD to the new HD. Expensive, but problem solved. Plus you'll have a backup HD incase things go wrong again. And you can move it around. Right now I have 2 backup USB HDs ready to copy stuff onto. 0 Share this post Link to post
Skeletor Posted December 20, 2005 If windows was crashing does that mean that the hard drive with windows installed on it is dying, or would windows crash if any HD is dying? 0 Share this post Link to post
leileilol Posted December 20, 2005 your windows files are on bad sectors caused by the mechanical fuckup 0 Share this post Link to post