Quick rehash/update:
Since I had 3 hard drives in my computer, I decided to take out the one I purposely wasn't using to put into my wife's old machine. I accidentally took out the drive with windows installed and put it in her old machine and fired her up. After seeing the windows message pop up I turned off the machine immediately. I got the hard drive situation resolved and finally fired up my machine. I first noticed that windows was loading super super slow (I figure it was checking the internal changes I made and I did move the SATA port on the mobo). Anyway, it finally loaded up and all was well.
Now Current:
The damned hard drive started making this loud thunk sound periodically and I noticed windows would stutter before the thunk took place. Since it got worse the longer the system stayed on I took it out. Figured it was dying a slow death (all of a sudden)
So now I'm using my 1TB hard drive as my main drive and had to reformat again and reinstall all my shit within a 1.5 week time period. This just plain sucks. btw, the HD I put in my wife's machine works (which just happens to be the same exact one that died in mine).
Anyway, do any of ya'll think the issues I was describing with the old HD was the sound of a HD dying?
Since I had 3 hard drives in my computer, I decided to take out the one I purposely wasn't using to put into my wife's old machine. I accidentally took out the drive with windows installed and put it in her old machine and fired her up. After seeing the windows message pop up I turned off the machine immediately. I got the hard drive situation resolved and finally fired up my machine. I first noticed that windows was loading super super slow (I figure it was checking the internal changes I made and I did move the SATA port on the mobo). Anyway, it finally loaded up and all was well.
Now Current:
The damned hard drive started making this loud thunk sound periodically and I noticed windows would stutter before the thunk took place. Since it got worse the longer the system stayed on I took it out. Figured it was dying a slow death (all of a sudden)
So now I'm using my 1TB hard drive as my main drive and had to reformat again and reinstall all my shit within a 1.5 week time period. This just plain sucks. btw, the HD I put in my wife's machine works (which just happens to be the same exact one that died in mine).
Anyway, do any of ya'll think the issues I was describing with the old HD was the sound of a HD dying?