Hard Drive Failure

Laptop hard drive failure. Backup immediately if your hard drive makes this sound. I was able to get 5 years of use out of this drive and didn't lose any data. The drive is a Hitachi Travelstar (08K0633) 40GB, 4200rpm PATA (2.5 inch) laptop hard drive.

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Science & Technology

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• hard
• drive
• failure
• 2.5
• inch
• laptop
• hitachi
• travelstar
• 40
• GB
• 4200
• rpm
• 08K0633
• The
• One
• Emperor
• head
• crash
• click
• of
• death

[Maran2309]

my laptop god this problem

start DST short test

Test result: fail

Error code : 1000-0141

msg: no drive detected

can someone know about this problem. pls kindly send your information thanks

[TheOneEmperor]

I believe you have a dead hard drive. If the computer says "no drive detected", the BIOS is not seeing it. The best you can do now is replace it. From experience, I'd replace it with a 2.5 inch Western Digital or Seagate drive.

[SixtiesFan90]

@TheOneEmperor: I don't know about WD. I had a computer that had at least 2-3 MAJOR malfunctions with one. Now it's dead.

[TheOneEmperor]

No hard drive is safe, they all die eventually. Some are better than others. As a general rule, avoid Maxtor and Quantum drives.

[tombell12]

That hard drive has a good rhythm going :)

My laptop has a Travelstar 120GB and have had no problems for over a year and a half now :D

[TheOneEmperor]

Hitachi makes decent drives but, I would still back up often. Hard Drives are mechanical and they do wear out. I've honestly had better luck with Seagate and Western Digital. They both now have 5 year warranties on their "performance" drives, so they are better than Hitachi in that respect. If you are looking for something very quiet, Western Digital's drives are near silent.

[TkMToM1993]

My external Drive sometimes stops working and makes this noise.. i just unplug and plug it back in lol

[dq476]

I have a 500gb Western digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS, when it reads/writes data it is very loud. But it works great and it is very fast and runs 24/7 in my pc.

[Jcc3279]

I had that happen before and it's sucks if you don't have a back up of your data.

I always have a back up of my data

[Macintosh3745]

that happened to me but my model when it starts making that noise it makes an ambulance noise and shuts off.

[Elricc1]

Your camera cannot handle that.

[3kliksphilip]

This is the scariest sound in the WORLD

[mrthingus]

In July 2009, my computer started telling me my hard drive might fail in the near future. I read some of the common symptoms associated with hard drive failure and have so far not countered one.

Do hard drives just die all of the sudden or can one see it coming before it dies?

[TheWorldGatekeeper]

ha ha ,your camera confused . camera:fucking focus her or there 

[cheetawolf]

@bboyzshannon sorry, but your harddrive is offficially dead once it clicks like this.

a last ditch effort would be to send it to DiskSavers, but yea, if you cant afford that, your data is gone

[arleas]

@TheOneEmperor Maxtor USED To be a good company, until Seagate bought them. Seagate drives are shit. I've had like 3 drives go dead on me in little over a year and they were all seagates.