hard drive clicking rather loudly

On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 17:54:49 -0500, David Maynard
wrote:

It is clicking like something is hitting the case. It did this about a week ago
and I just turned the system off, bought a new hard drive just in case and
backed up everything. Is it possible that this can be fixed. It is a
western digital wd400. It is only year and half old. Would spinrite software maybe

That sounds like the symptom referred to, descriptively enough, as the
'click of death' and if it follows the pattern of my WD drives the best you
can do is administer pain management; which you've done by buying a
replacement and backing up your data.

To this I would add that while the old drive is still operable, wipe the
data from it after you've confirmed the validity of your backup.

Next is to run the WD diagnostics to get the error code, or wait till
complete failure if it passes for the short term, and get a warranty
replacement.

I think the WD400 series has only a one year warranty period. Refer to
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/curre...?Model=WD400BB


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Robert B. Clark wrote:
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 17:54:49 -0500, David Maynard
wrote:


It is clicking like something is hitting the case. It did this about a week ago
and I just turned the system off, bought a new hard drive just in case and
backed up everything. Is it possible that this can be fixed. It is a
western digital wd400. It is only year and half old. Would spinrite software maybe

That sounds like the symptom referred to, descriptively enough, as the
'click of death' and if it follows the pattern of my WD drives the best you
can do is administer pain management; which you've done by buying a
replacement and backing up your data.


To this I would add that while the old drive is still operable, wipe the
data from it after you've confirmed the validity of your backup.


Next is to run the WD diagnostics to get the error code, or wait till
complete failure if it passes for the short term, and get a warranty
replacement.


I think the WD400 series has only a one year warranty period. Refer to
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/curre...?Model=WD400BB



Ah. Thanks for the heads up. Had been a while since I last checked the
warranty period.