Odd Computer Problem, Harddrive?

[Detritus]

Okay, so yesterday morning, I got up and surfed the internet a bit before going to work. Next thing I know I hear a sound coming from my computer. The sound went something like this: there was a click, then a whir/buzz, that sounded very similar to a floppy in the floppy drive opening then spinning. While this sound was going on, the harddrive light comes on and everything locks up. Then when the sound is over everthing runs normally. This began to repeat at intervals ov about once every 15 seconds. So I reboot, after going through POST, the computer identifies my harddrives and harddrive controller card and everything appears to be going fine. Then, at the windows XP boot window, the sound reappears and booting stops and all I get is a black screen. So, later in the day when I get home from work, I try to boot it again, same thing. So, I start trouble shooting by unplugging a harddrive. Everything boots just fine. So, I shut the comp off, plug the drive back in, and everything boots fine. I take this blessing as a sign and back up everything on that drive. Then I run Maxtor's diagnostics on every drive in my pc (4 all maxtor) and they all check out fine. Well, everything has been running fine since then. How concernd do I need to be?

System:

MSI VIA 266a mobo
AMD 1700 Palo
4 Maxtor hard drives 3 40gig and a 60gig
Yammaha CDRW
Pine DVD
GF 3 ti200
512 mg Samsung PC2100
Promise ATA100 harddrive controller card

Thanks
Det

[Bill in SD, CA]

Sounds like what I went through shortly before my HDD gave up the ghost.

I'd get anything important off the drive before it's tpp late.

Bill.

Bill

[Detritus]

I was afraid of that...

[Bizkitkid2001]

On a side note, you can get a 40gig as cheap as $55 at www.newegg.com

IF your mobo has SATA, newegg has a Hitachi 80gig SATA drive for only $74, which is a dollar cheaper than a maxtor 60gig SATA drive.

[Detritus]

Okay, so my Maxtor just went to the big harddrive computer in the sky... just as I feared... at least it gave me the opportunity to back it up. Can I have a moment of silence please. It died quietly with a direct write failure, incorrect indentification (size and model in the bios of my ATA 100 controller card), and very slow boot.... thanks...

Det

[Bizkitkid2001]

Yours died a long torchurous death. When my 8 year old 8gig maxtor died, there was hardly any warning of failure, then all of a sudden it powered down, but never powered back up. I feel your pain of losing a loved one

[Messiah89]

Quote:

Originally posted by Bizkitkid2001
Yours died a long torchurous death. When my 8 year old 8gig maxtor died, there was hardly any warning of failure, then all of a sudden it powered down, but never powered back up. I feel your pain of losing a loved one

You need some time away from the PC...

[EpyonMelee]

i was yelled at barbaricly when my dad couldn't understand that the hd died by itself......not because of me..........still got my ass kicked........

[Detritus]

Quote:

Originally posted by Bizkitkid2001
Yours died a long torchurous death. When my 8 year old 8gig maxtor died, there was hardly any warning of failure, then all of a sudden it powered down, but never powered back up. I feel your pain of losing a loved one

It is sad to me because it was in my first build... oh well, at least it wasn't my OS hard drive so I am still up and running and I only lost a bit of email.

[Maniaman]

I've lost a few harddrives like that too. My laptop harddrive is about to enter retirement sooon too. It'll make some clicking sounds and everythign will lock up. Oh well, nothing important on it anyway.