Corinthian 0 Posted June 28, 2000 My PC suddenly crashed earlier today, everything just froze and the PC would not respond. First time this has ever happened to me in Windows 2000. Anyway, I pressed the reset button and rebooted, but now my harddrive is behaving strange. It takes a long time to boot, and the harddrive is making a disturbing noise every 25 seconds. The noise goes something like this: it sounds like something is being written or read from it, first 3 short sounds, then 4 slightly longer sounds, then 3 short sounds again, and then at the end the 4 longer sounds. In the 5 seconds this goes on everything is slowed down, and only the mouse responds. I don't seem to have lost any data (yet), but I suspect of course that the harddrive is wrecked. I have checked the harddrive with Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition, and it is not infected. The harddrive is an IBM DPTA-372050 ATA-66 20500 MB 7200 RPM. I am running a Celeron 400 mhz @ 500 mhz on an Abit BH6 with 128 mb ram. Share this post Link to post
Draxar 0 Posted June 28, 2000 Oh well it might just seem unuseful, but that kind of noise (assuming you're describing it correctly) is related to a disk read error. Therefore I suggest you do a surface test with norton ... try using patterns (does that still exist?). A harddrive failure also generaly hog the system horribly as does a cdrom reader with a damaged cd. Just a suggestion... -Draxar Share this post Link to post
Draxar 0 Posted June 28, 2000 Oh well it might just seem unuseful, but that kind of noise (assuming you're describing it correctly) is related to a disk read error. Therefore I suggest you do a surface test with norton ... try using patterns (does that still exist?). A harddrive failure also generaly hog the system horribly as does a cdrom reader with a damaged cd. Just a suggestion... -Draxar Share this post Link to post
euankirkhope 0 Posted June 28, 2000 Look in the event veiwer for the precise details of what is happening. Most likey that you now have a crater in your harddrive I used partition magic on one of my drives to shrink the actual partition past the bad bit (the first 50MBs, except bootsector was OK ) Share this post Link to post
Igor 0 Posted June 28, 2000 The HD's do die. Try doing a surface check with scandisk under 98 or Norton Utilities. U can also get diagnostic software from IBM that will check your HD for problems. (I belive this software requares a complete format and repartitioning of your drive) Maybe just reinstall of WIn2k will fix it... Share this post Link to post
