Possible solution for clicking noises at startup

[Daniel Ferreira]

Greetings.

I'm not a newbie in hard drive matters, but I have a lot more to learn, so I'm sorry if I'm posting something too obvious for you guys.

And I'm not an English speaking person, so I'm sorry for my bad English.

I have a computer in my office whose hard drive have been doing a clicking noise at startup for a very long time. This clicking noise is typical of a bad head. I've also learned somewhere that it can be caused by problems in the service area, which would eventually made impossible for the head to position properly.

Well, when I finally got the time, I scanned the disk with MHDD and Erase Waits enabled. I've got a bad block near the beginning of the disk, which was recovered. After that, there were no noises anymore.

What surprised me is that I've seen a few drives with track 0 problems, but I've never found a single one making such clicking noise. It almost induced me in error.

I would appreciate any information about an utility like MHDD which I could use for diagnosing SCSI disks.

Best regards,

Daniel

[Dmitry_Postrigan]

http://dp.zirochka.com/mhdd4.1.5-shanpsot.zip
Can diagnose SCSI drives. Only two procedures are working: SCAN and ERASE.
Erase waits or other switches are disabled when working in SCSI mode.

Put new mhdd.exe file over 4.0 floppy.

Program needs DOS ASPI to be loaded first.

[David Sam]

http://dp.zirochka.com/mhdd4.1.5-shanpsot.zip
Can diagnose SCSI drives. Only two procedures are working: SCAN and ERASE.
Erase waits or other switches are disabled when working in SCSI mode.

Put new mhdd.exe file over 4.0 floppy.

Program needs DOS ASPI to be loaded first.

Hi Master Dmitry,

What is a ASPI mean? Is it this program is under the MHDD?
Do you mind to teach me how can I run Batch file in MHDD?
In MHDD document file is ASCII code because my PC can't
translate Russian language.

Thank you.