Is my drive getting bad?

twodaend said:

I recently heard a clicking noise on one of my drives so I decided to install HD Tune. However before I did that, I uplugged my other drive and only left my primary drive. I haven't heard the clicking since, so it must have been my other drive (I'll plugged it back in tonight).

I did run HD Tune on my primary drive and found that Reallocated Sectors was yellow. Is this something I should be concerned about.

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khelben1979 said:

How old is the harddrive?

And also, you might consider looking at SpinRite. SpinRite fixes your harddrive so "it feels" better. Although I personally don't know how well it works but people on the net says it's a good program and from what I have seen it seems to be a very good program.

Have you ever heard about SpinRite? (Security Now has a podcast where they often talks about this program also.)

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Masska said:

are you using it on XP?

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khelben1979 said:

No.

I'm not using it at all, actually. And the reason is because I want to backup my harddrives before I dare to use this program. Some people have been reported problems with SpinRite, although most people seems to experience it as a very good program and if you watch the video which they have on the homepage you can see more clearly what it does.

The homepage clearly states that it should work with XP.

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khelben1979 said:

No.

I'm not using it at all, actually. And the reason is because I want to backup my harddrives before I dare to use this program. Some people have been reported problems with SpinRite, although most people seems to experience it as a very good program and if you watch the video which they have on the homepage you can see more clearly what it does.

The homepage clearly states that it should work with XP.

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Masska said:

yeah right. thanks for the info.
In general though I dont like to mess arround with hardrive utes or tools.
I'd rather leave them alone, keep them cool and above all quiet

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RollingThunder said:

Maaska,

I agree, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. However, if there is a problem and your drive is failing, it's gonna fail sooner or later and using diags like Sprinrite won't cause any more problems than you already have. You can run a Level 2 diags that won't do any more that tell you of bad sectors, that's all. This is your warning that all is not well. Backup and use a deeper level of Spinrite, there's nothing to lose by then.

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Masska said:

your right, knowing in advance if there are issues with a drive can only be good.
But do you think Sprinrite will work on vista64?

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