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henevien
 Post subject: Hitachi IDE 40GB Clicking
PostPosted: March 4th, 2012, 2:31 
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Hitachi IDE 40GB HTS421240H9AT00

Clicks non stop and then spins down.

Is this something I can do with Hyper Terminal or PC-3000? Or probably too complex and I should send it to a lab?
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dmarques
 Post subject: Re: Hitachi IDE 40GB Clicking
PostPosted: March 4th, 2012, 10:43 
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Hi,

You can't do much to be honest.
Only thing you could do with it is to read nv-ram, to check if it's structure is ok, what I think it is, or else the drive probably would not spin.

So the problem might be related to heads or pre-amp. It's better to take it to a local lab for a quote.
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harddrivespecialist
 Post subject: Re: Hitachi IDE 40GB Clicking
PostPosted: March 4th, 2012, 10:59 
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Drive is pretty old so I would say Heads are gone.

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networks
 Post subject: Re: Hitachi IDE 40GB Clicking
PostPosted: March 4th, 2012, 11:37 
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WD 40GB I saw with same symptoms 2 weeks ago.


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northwind
 Post subject: Re: Hitachi IDE 40GB Clicking
PostPosted: March 4th, 2012, 12:51 
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@networks Wow. Mess.

@OP I agree with others, it's bad heads.

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