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Hard drive failing
I built a Sandy Bridge and foolishly used a Samsung 103J Spinpoint 1TB drive.
NOw being a first timer I just put it altogether and swircted on > loaded the OS -7 Home and began computing.
However the Samsung has made quite loud clicking / scratching noises form the start as it reads / writes and after two months this morning is making a *loud noise that I can only describe as an out of aligment rubber whell rubbing on the side of the case. THis is now loud enough for me to hear outside of thee room.
*(A thrum thrum noise as you get with an old ceiling fan sometimes)
I have been told that I should have set the drive up when I built the machine - partitioning the drive etc before loading the OS.
I have since installed two Seagate's - 1x500MB for back up and 1x1TB for storage - it was when I looked in Computer that I saw that the smaller one was listed as having a 10MB partition which I think I backed up the OS form the C: drive by copy / paste, and the 1TB ws not even there - arousing my curiosity as to why it was not listed.
So I am left feeling a bit of an idiot knowing that I should have researched it a bit more before going in gung ho with drives etc.
I ma thinking that perhaps my only recourse is to take out the Samsung and make th larger Seagate my OS drive after partitioning and formatting it.
I have a small 3.0USB external drive I have system images on which I am hoping to be able to use to recover some of my photos, passwords, apps etc - if this is possible even if it is only the important stuff.
Everything was going fine until now and it is now frozen solid, and I think only unplugging it from the main power supply will I be able to shut it down.
So is there anyone who is good at teaching an idiot that could point me in the right direction
Last edited by ICIT2LOL; 13 Jun 2011 at 21:17. Reason: Spelling and addition