Defective hard drive, clicking

[Themacman4me]

the readers gone!

[dvnupldr]

it looks & sounds pathetic, lol. almost like a human limping around on one leg or something

[luigimario54321ful]

@Mrlablong maybe it`s AFV

[MrJablong]

is that fox news in the background? shame...

[wwallender]

One Head Is Bad ONLY ONE

[the731272]

bad heads 

[21Blitz]

sounds so fast you would think that fuckin spinnin sliver would fly off at your face

[HelloWorld492]

no i didn't know spitting had a $300 fine

[marc1979Guitare]

i think theres a way to fix it, search on youtube! :-))

[SotaGermanMaster]

My HDD makes this sounds when i shut my pc down... i have guarantee on it should i send the pc back?

or is it normal that this sounds can come by a shut down?

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

@SotaGermanMaster is it just a single click or many clicks? a single click is normal, but many clicks... then i would backup immediately

[ypoora1]

@SotaGermanMaster if it's one click the heads are jumping back into storage position. Nothing wrong then.

[brandomar1]

Lol.

[TheBagelTornado]

It moves when it's idling because it's either running a scheduled defragmentation, indexing the drive for faster searching, or reading random files to keep programs running. It cannot completely stop working or else Windows along with many other things will stop working as well.

Crazy nuts shouldn't be allowed on YouTube...

[PjTheAnimator]

what is the site i see in reflections of the whatever!

[GlycerinZ]

@PjTheAnimator

..of the platter :)

[flamingibanez]

@PjTheAnimator looks like spotify to me.

[NixonTech2071]

Most common clicking pattern I hear when it comes to these problems.

[TroopahFTW]

I don't understand whether this is a joke or not :/

[TroopahFTW]

I can hear a similar sound from my computer and it's brand new. Can this sound be mistaken for anything else?

[wingnut4427]

same issue here. Mine is making a single click every 15 seconds. But it's on My slave drive. Luckily I have a external drive that I'm gonna move everything on to. I might swap them out & see what My results are. Hopefully that will fix the issue. All i know right now is that it's bugging the hell out of me. lol

[c0rrupts3ct0r555]

it had a head crash u can hear the heads scraping the platter when the arm is in park position.... its done

[kleppyknox]

2.3GB? SSD?

[kleppyknox]

The second you open up a HDD its instantly broken.

[mykittydoespwn]

nope its when something tiny falls on it

[Streaky1986]

but what if its already ruined or doesnt work

[deathworm101]

actually, it's when something falls into the drive say like a spec of dust, then that's when the damage happens.

[nicholaswells]

@kleppyknox not necessarily true I have friends that have modded there desktop drives and replaced the casing with homemade acrylic cases. These have worked fine for the last 4 years.

[MSWindows30]

The hard drives are so sensetive. Dust, fingerprint, and hair can crash it.

[the731272]

@kleppyknox no not all of them like the 100mb hdd i have that has 4 platters i think

[tin701]

@kleppyknox i wouldnt say instantly broken, but instantly doomed definately.

[ypoora1]

@kleppyknox nah... just keep it clean. hdds work whitouit cover ;)

[Dell0304]

@kleppyknox That's not exactly true....I opened a hella old 1.6GB drive and put it back together and into the computer, and it worked fine....I know it's not good to open it, but who cares!?!??! it's only 1.6GB lol

[wwallender]

@kleppyknox THAT IS WRONG YOU LEARNED THAT FROM A DIPSHIT

[AllStarzProduction]

some guy int he background is nagging about profits. lol

[FixedHDD]

i got one of these and it is still working with Win 98 :-P

[oopy12]

I'll give it head :)

I opened up an old dying hard disk and turned it on, it was crazy

[JulioGeeMan]

It looks like the head is to short to read the entire drive?

[markii63]

there is no head on it

[JulioGeeMan]

The Read Write Arm Dumbass

[6V92TA]

lol

[haydenbinkley]

do you know you can get your data replaced by professionals and what they'll do is replace your head

[Commander1024]

got the issue ;-)

the bearing seems to be defunct ;-)

and the head should never, NEVER scratch on the surface

[scottieneon]

I can really hear the scratching noises.

[Avatinfernus]

That reminds me of a bad souvenir ;) *L*

[tombell12]

The drive cover looks similar to an old one I keep in my stash. It was a 2GB Western Digital.

[captain150]

The one in this video is also a Western Digital, very distinctive cover. All WDs from 1991 until around 2000 or so had basically this exact cover (earliest ones were black).

[tombell12]

What was it's exact capacity? The one I have which has the same cover as yours was a WD Caviar 12100

[captain150]

Mine is AC21200 (not in this video though, not sure of the one in the video, it's not my video).

The first number is the number of platters. So my drive has two platters, your drive has one platter. The next 4 numbers is the capacity in MB. Mine is 1200MB (1.2GB) yours is 2100MB (2.1GB). Hope that's helpful.

[tombell12]

I also have a 21600 (1.6 GB) and a 11200 (1.2GB) but with a different cover to the one displayed on the video.

It never actually occurred that this was someone else's vid. Hopefully it was okay with them for you to upload it :)

[captain150]

I didn't even upload it lol. I'm captain150, the guy that uploaded it is janhugo.

Anyhow I lied, the cover on my drive is a bit different. The label is smaller and it has a slightly different shape, but still very similar to this one.

[tombell12]

Okay for some bizzarre reason I thought you were the uploader this whole time *dohhhhhh* :P

I did have a couple which had like "Caviar (insert number here)" in a larger font :)

[HelloNewYorkCity]

Wait a second, the harddrive is missing its read/write head!!!

[SgtSavage166]

some hard drives don't have them on the top platter, my old IBM didn't