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i ve been getting 1 click and a random lockup of computer

i am 100 percent its the hard drive

the lockups happen when i boot , playing games, in linux also, surfing the net

so i figured its either a bios telling the harddrive to stop or hardware harddrive problem

i`ve run the chkdsk utility in vista and right after it boots it does the scan and it found nothing

i`ve run seagate tools for dos and it shows nothing wrong

i`ve run hddregenerator which is a commercial program to scan harddrives at boot and it found nothing

i`ve reset the harddive cable`s

the computer has no side on the case so it gets plenty of cool air and the harddrive is luke warm or cool to the touch

seagate tools for dos stated that it has reached only 50 c and it runs at most times 44 c

this is a dual boot system with linux and vista

i`ve also RAN gparted and it scanned the hd and said it WOULD repair some things but it was still locking up {i lost some of my SAVED games}

now i dont want to say all is fixed but i went into the award bios and set everything to default

it has not locked up today with 6 hours of gaming {10/3/09}

could resetting the bios to default only be telling me that the harddrive is still defective ?

but if you could tell me more things to do to test the hd {i have 9 more months warranty}

and i dont want to start all over with blank harddrive {i could ask for a replacement and copy , ghost the whole thing

i use linux to run the internet



I have a hard drives do exactly as you describe. Why take the chance? Backup your data and get another hard drive. For the $50, is it really worth the aggravation?thanks for reply
i have also returned harddrives before with click
but wasn`t sure then either
better to ask then not ask
but i get in too far
and end up building a new machine
Mine always fail after the warranty has expired. I have a 6-year OLD WD 80GB IDE. I only noticed it was failing when I had it in a RAID 1 array. I was rebuilding it once a week and couldn't figure out why, all WD tests passed. I keep it here, only for reference.


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