Is my hard Drive failing

[Rockman]

I have never had this happen so I don't know the signs. But it seems to take a bit longer on searches and it's a bit louder than before and it seemed to be making a dull rattling but it could be something else in the case doing that I overlooked.

 

[glappkaeft]

I have never had this happen so I don't know the signs. But it seems to take a bit longer on searches and it's a bit louder than before and it seemed to be making a dull rattling but it could be something else in the case doing that I overlooked.

There is really no way to tell one way or the other. I have had three drive die on me the last dozen years or so. They all behaved in different ways before the "big crash" and one didn't give any warning at all. Backup and backup often. I have had at least 2 HDs in my computer the last 8 years and save all my work on both drives and now and then also to external media. That works for me.

Patrik

 

[Windfire]

There is really no way to tell one way or the other. I have had three drive die on me the last dozen years or so. They all behaved in different ways before the "big crash" and one didn't give any warning at all. Backup and backup often. I have had at least 2 HDs in my computer the last 8 years and save all my work on both drives and now and then also to external media. That works for me.

Patrik

My story exactly. I've lost 3 drives in the past 15 years (all within 2 years of each other--all Seagate IDE). Of the three cases, in >1< instance I received warning enough to backup--the other two had no warning before failures.

Another leason I learned was that the one time I spent money on a good tape backup system, the system failed! The HD died, and the backup tape was "corrupt". I litterally yanked the tape drive and tossed it.

Since then I've backed up to CDRW (now DVD+RW) on a semi-regular approach. I also keep 2 hard drives available (currently WD 120JB, Maxtor 160GB) and backup "My Documents".