Hard Drive

[jonathan_tijuana]

I think i have a problem with my hard drive, it is making a noise and everything stops, and also sometimes doesn't even load windows, what could it be.. the drive is damaged? or a bad sector? something is corrupt? or may be a virus? when it load windows it won't last more than 5 minutes to freeze or restart. i tried a software from maxtor POWERMAX, i did a boot disk but i don't know if i did something wrong but it did not start checking the disk. what do you guys think i should you before sending them the hard drive?


Thanks for any help.
Jonathan B.

[LTJBukem]

You need to set your computer to boot from floppy in the bios.

[jonathan_tijuana]

yes i did that, it read it and the the screen when black with something like this a/:

[ck-uk]

It could be damg'd m8 right clck properties in my comp run all the scans with recover bad sectors..

have a look here m8...
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

maybe win doctor ,reinstall windows or dual see if its this installation mess'd up.scan for spy,adware

[Virtualbody1234]

Originally posted by jonathan_tijuana@7 May 2004 - 11:49
yes i did that, it read it and the the screen when black with something like this a/:
You are at the DOS prompt when you see A:>

You need to run the Powermax program from there.

I'm quite sure it's called powermax.exe.

All you need to do is type powermax and then press enter at that prompt.

[Chewie]

What sort of noise do you hear?

[jonathan_tijuana]

I hear like a click. (ex. almost the sameone the mouse do when u click it)

this is what they say i have to do.

System Boot and Test Initialization


1.After extracting the PowerMax files to the floppy diskette, restart Windows with the PowerMax floppy in the A:\ drive.
2.When the system restarts it will boot to the PowerMax diagnostic program

NOTE: PowerMax does not run from within Windows 95, 98/ME, NT, 2000, or XP. Do not try to run the utility from an MS-DOS prompt window.

[Virtualbody1234]

Originally posted by jonathan_tijuana@7 May 2004 - 12:59
I hear like a click. (ex. almost the sameone the mouse do when u click it)

this is what they say i have to do.

System Boot and Test Initialization


1.After extracting the PowerMax files to the floppy diskette, restart Windows with the PowerMax floppy in the A:\ drive.
2.When the system restarts it will boot to the PowerMax diagnostic program

NOTE: PowerMax does not run from within Windows 95, 98/ME, NT, 2000, or XP. Do not try to run the utility from an MS-DOS prompt window.
What's your question?

[tesco]

Originally posted by jonathan_tijuana@7 May 2004 - 13:59
I hear like a click. (ex. almost the sameone the mouse do when u click it)

this is what they say i have to do.

System Boot and Test Initialization


1.After extracting the PowerMax files to the floppy diskette, restart Windows with the PowerMax floppy in the A:\ drive.
2.When the system restarts it will boot to the PowerMax diagnostic program

NOTE: PowerMax does not run from within Windows 95, 98/ME, NT, 2000, or XP. Do not try to run the utility from an MS-DOS prompt window.
type powermax like vb1234 said to do...

[Chewie]

I've heard that sort of noise from a hard drive before; one that worked fine for a short while then would 'click' and Windows would freeze.
It was fucked.

[peat moss]

Is the harddrive still under warranty? If it is they will want to know the 3 ? digit code . You get that from running powermax. If not under warranty your shit out of luck.

[Raven_1210]

If your hearing Clicking Noises your hard drive is messed it ether has bad sectors or internal damage. If its from Maxtor there is a 3 year warrenty. With Power max u need to boot with that disk

[RGX]

Clicking generally means its about to go. :(

My 14 gig went this way.

I think this is an internal fault with the hard drive and nothing that software can fix, but I may be wrong.

[Raven_1210]

nope no software can fix it. I play with clicky hard drives all day I work at a computer store that does data recovery I like some looks I get from people when I tell them the price to get there data back after I hear click and the bios cannot see it :frusty:

[atiVidia]

lol clicks dont always mean that theres sumtin wrong with the drive ;)

it could just be the head moving from the edge to the center many times per second. that can create a beautiful series of clicking noises :)