Harddrive making clicking noise...

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laar

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I just partitioned and installed fedora on my harddrive and it works fine, but when i use windows (i'm dual booting) the hardrive makes clicking noises, every few seconds or so , what could be the problem, and how do i fix it?
 
it only does this in windows, are you sure about that?
Sound like the hdd is on its last legs, how old is it
 
It sounds like you might have some hardware issues with your harddrive, and there's no way to fix them. If it's under warrenty, call the manufaturer and see what they say. If not, I'd suggest keeping a good backup of your data as it might crash before too long...
 
It's about a month old give or take a week, and it only does it in windows, the noise started after i installed linux ,should try to format it again and see if that fixes it?
 
Well that sounds like the only think you can do. Either that or send it back to the shop (a month is not a long time). Are you sure that this is not just a normal noise that hdds make, is it a very pronounced clicking
 
Well

When a HDD does sounds like you have described, it's going bust! It could have been the partitioning process that caused this. By dividing it into partitions, the reading heads may be reading without any problems on the Linux partition, but once in the Windows partition, cause some hardware problems. I would backup immediately and have the HDD returned and replaced.

JAN :D
 
Something like this happened to me after I converted from FAT32 to NTFS, but the hard drive was refurbished and noe it doesn't work. NEVER buy refurbished hard drive's.
 
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