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Posted by SuperFarStucker on Nov-12-2003 00:36:

My hard drive about to die?

I've experienced the deaths of several drives (6 or 7 i'm guessing) throughout the years, but I've never ran across something like this. The drive is making a wierd spin down noise when the head is parked (kind of sounds like a turbo sucking air when spooling, only a lot lot quieter). It seems to be in fine working order, I'm just a bit worried about my data (read:mp3's).

Just for the sake of it the specs are:

Western Digital 20 GB 7200 rpm drive
It's been RMA'ed once before (head crash)... Been working fine for the past two years though

Posted by Orbax on Nov-12-2003 00:37:

my WD went down hard core with 160 gigs of info. BACK IT UP

Posted by whiskers on Nov-12-2003 00:55:

are you sure it's not the cpu fan?

Posted by Harri on Nov-12-2003 02:10:

If u are unsure as to the state of the drive, go to the western digital website and download their diagnostic utilities.

Posted by Inertia on Nov-12-2003 02:22:

i feel another head crash coming on...