HDD clicking and spinning down

dragon2309

dragon2309

P.I Dragon
Hey everyone, im fearing the worse here. I left my PC on, there was a bit of music playing on low volume, i got back and the music was stuck repeating like a 0.54 second loop and the whole PC had frozen, no mouse, no keyboard, i hit the power button, but on rebooting the HDD (the 80Gb one i bleive) made the slight click noise that it makes when i usually turn the PC off.... so it was like it was shutting itslef down,it was spinning down for no reason..

And this is bad because its my boot disk, and when its loading windows it just spins down and screws everything up. My PC has been on for about 15 mins now and it hasnt done it yet (yes it did do it whilst inside windows aswell, so its not just a booting up problem... It seems to be fine, ive got the SMART analysis telling me all the ifno n both drives, they are both extremely healthy and windows has not come up with any "recovered from serious error crap"

What do i do, take out my 80Gb drive and install XP on my 120Gb and just leave the 80 or do i format/resinstall (cant see that helping at all) what do i do...??

Cheers, dragon

Oh, yeh, and its not even hot today, yesterday it got to like 36*c in my mroom and it was all fine, today its only about 25*c. so its not heat related.

dragon
 
Heya

Well David,

I would do one thing. I heard it's a problem with some 80GB WD HDDs. I had the exact same problem, thought it was dead. I turned out, from what my friend told me that the power cable has to be jammed in hard. I tried it and bingo....it works like a charm ever since. It has been a year since the same thing happened.

JAN :D
 
i was going to say the same, sometimes the power connectors on WD drives can be...... particularly hard to deal with...
 
well, ive installed XP and my apps on my 120Gb and im running off of that one now, i unplugged the 80Gb so it was an easier installation and plugged it back in when i was finished.... thinking about it, it hasnt happened in the last 1-2 hours, is that because im using the 120Gb now or is it because the power cable might have been dodgy (but fixed when i unlppugged and plugged back in)??

dragon

*EDIT* - oh and jan, i have no probs with anyone actually using my name, i think its better, more personal, but only my dad calls me david and i dont like him, call me dave. cheers
 
oh, dammit, ok then, ill just have to hate you as i do others that call me david.... lol, j/k, yo can call me what you want, i just PREFER dave

and the drive is still holding up, im going to try running chkdsk on it and see if ti collapses then

dragon
 
Ok

Sure Dave,

I hope that it goes well from now on. My HDD went through the same problem and you also have a WD, so it could well be the exact same problem. Do let us know how it turns out ;)

JAN :D
 
its not too good at all, at the moment im running in the windows installation on the 120Gb (working drive), if i boot up into the Windows Installation on the 80Gb WD drive it lags like crazy, i dont have many startup programs, but ti ntakes at least 5-10 mins for the CPU to get down from solid 100% usage. After that i can do stuff, play music for example, but if i open firefox whiklst playing music, nope, the music slows down to an inaudible level and firefox lags, i dont get a net connection until about 10 mins after booting up....

It hasnt crashed again, so maybe the power cable did do it, but in all the times it span down and up inside windows, something very important is dying slowly, and extremely painfully.

My PC is the main encoder and streaming server for an upcoming event, i cannot have this happening.... and formatting is not an option, there is a lot fo stuff on both drives that cannot be deleted under any circumstances and is too big for DVD. The only other spare HDD ive got is 6Gb (useless)

Please help, it seems stable and running smooth on the 120Gb, but in the 80, everything that could go wrong, does go wrong, do you think its the HDD dying and thus killing the transfer rates, or do you think its windows related...??

please help, dragon (or dave, whatever)
 
Thread resurrection, just a little update cos i found this thread by accident. The drive is stilll going, i boot form the 120Gb drive constantly and its now my primary, i keep my 80Gb drive as a backup and restore drive, it has never clicked and spun down after a re-wired the whole case and took some of the strain off of the power cable feeding the drives

so thansk jan, it seems your suggestion worked, cheers

draogn
 
Well, it certainly sounds like the HDD, and with my experience with WD I would put some money on it.

However, I did have a similar thing happen to me a while ago on a client's computer with a single HDD. It was a brand new build and it was doing that. Turned out to be the power supply.
 
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