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Windows 7 - Hard disk making noise on particular location and unable to format it.
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| 01-08-2012 | #1 |
| | Hard disk making noise on particular location and unable to format it. Hello friends, I have Hitachi SATA 60 GB hard drive and recently started making severe Noise from it. So, I have partitioned hard drive now like below and traced where exact position sound coming from. 24 MB <- for Boot sector 15 GB <- Making noise and formatting stops by 14% 14 GB <- Good 14 GB <- Good 14 GB <- Good, Windows XP SP2 installed I know the entire partition isn’t bad, but I don’t know how to diagnose it. I tried with windows inbuilt software - chkdsk /f /v /r. Checkdisk didn’t repaired that, instead made the crunching sound for hours and reported 4MB Bad. Still making noise from the partition when I save something and read it, even windows gets hang when I access that partition. Rest of the partition is perfectly fine. Is it okay, if I let that partition dead or can I recover the good clusters from it? Kindly suggest a good software that can mark the defected sectors BAD or let user do mark the defected portion MANUALLY BAD AND UNREADABLE. There is no data in it and I can try with whatever the experiments you are going to advice me. ;-) PS: - I could have download the Hitachi diagnostic ISO file but I don’t want to write a CD. I know you guys are clever enough to deal with this issueand support me.  ------------------------ Hard Disk: Hitachi 60GB SATA (SMART) Operating system: MS XP SP2 System manufacturer: Lenovo System model: 0786A39 Bios: Ver 1.00PARTTBL Processor: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T1400 @ 1.83GHz Memory: 1014MB RAM |
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| 01-08-2012 | #2 |
| | 1) Is this the noise your HD is making: Normally you will not hear the HD. Hard Drive Click of Death Explanation and Live Demonstration - YouTube Quote: PS: - I could have download the Hitachi diagnostic ISO file but I don’t want to write a CD. |
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| 01-08-2012 | #3 |
| | If your hard drive has mechanical problems and is failing, the failure will likely affect all partitions. I wouldn't expect to be able to diagnose by ear which partitions may have bad sectors and I wouldn't expect bad sectors to be the source of any particular noise. If the hard drive does not pass diagnostic tests, I would get any valuable data off of it, regardless of partition. |
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