Storage Solutions HDD making sound during activity

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ysrathore

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Hi,

I have a seagate 160 GB SATA 7200 HDD in my comp, whenever any disk activity takes place, I can hear a sound coming out of the hard disk.

Is it ok for some sound to come out? I ran Seagate's SeaTools & checked the drive, no problems were reported. Can I return the drive to Seagate for this or have to wait for it to fail to do so?
 
harryneopotter

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wat type of sound ??? if its like "tak-tak-tak" then you better back up your data and pay a visit to Accell Care Center in your city !!
 
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ysrathore

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Thanks guys....
The sound is like soft ticking sound....but in a silent room, its audible from 10 ft. away too.....
I'll back up the data today itself...could you provide me the details of the Accel Care Center in Bangalore??
 
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Himanshunegi198

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dont worry .... its nuthin. Its just that the rea/write head is started or moving. In my case it happens when i start up the computer and soemtimes in between also.

No need to worry , has been happening to me for atleast last 2 years, still going strong. Though i think U SHLD ALWAZ BACK UP UR DATA !
 
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ysrathore

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Just done with the backup now........I'll give a call to the support ppl just in case & maybe have it checked out. The sound that's coming from my drive is just to loud to ignore I suppose. But it's also been running fine for quite a while....
 
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kaiserbreath

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About 3 years back I had the same problem , so I opened the HDD only to find that it was infested with ants (merry go round for them?). Anyways once clean it was working fine.

But its a definite sign of imminent danger.
 
thetoxicmind

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Just a FYI, if your HD starts making click sounds it's probably struggling to read/write content. So attempting to run it in this condition will only lessen your chances of a successful data recovery.
 
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dkt433

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I got a same issue, i can hear an audible spinning sound from my HDD when i boot my computer. Anyways i already got PC restart issues from a few months. Dunno what to do :S. I hear a "tak" sound and my pc restarts. Is that a bad HDD issue?
 
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ysrathore

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It's a similar sound of scraping metal.

Anyone has any idea if I can get it RMA'd for this problem or have to wait for it to fail?
 
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ysrathore

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I did the test with Seatools. Passed all of em. Will do it again & post the results.

Any other good tools which might help out?
 
axeman

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Clicking noise, with no errors in seatools, can just mean regular ageing of drive. Keep monitoring it once a week.

Maintain a regular backup of your data. In case you start seeing even one bad sector, you can RMA.

RMA will not be entertained on sound/ clicking noises alone if there is no negative evidence to back it up.
 
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ysrathore

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When I ran the tests on Sea Tools now, all are failing & there is one Bad Sector on the drive. I guess I should go to the Seagate ppl now....:(

Also, I ran some utility called "Hard Disk Sentinel". It reported one sector bad & one more is about to fail...
 
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ysrathore

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But there are no error codes in the Logs...Just the failed tests...

Jus a quick ques, when I took out the drive, I noticed a scratch on the side of the drive.
It would have been caused while mounting the drive. Not that deep but is clearly seen.
On the Seagate website, its mentioned that a heavy scratch on the baseplate voids the warranty....

Is the warranty of my HDD void??
 
Hacker

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Dude, just take the hdd to the service center and tell them its not detected by the BIOS and windows.

You dont have to take any printouts.
 
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