Hard Disk clatter HELP

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I have a WD 20 gig hard as the boot drive and it has started to
chatter or clatter now and then.
Does anyone have any insight as to this problem.
I have run scan disk etc along with Western Digital Dia program and
none of them show any errors or problems.
How concerned should I be?
 
Well I'm no expert on HDs, but from what I've read, a new increase in
chatter from the HD usually is a warning of impending trouble. The only HD I
ever had go bad on me was a laptop drive, and it made intermittant clicking
sounds for about a week before it crashed for good. I'd back up my files if
I were you. The good news is you can buy a really good name-brand 40GB hard
drive for about $50 or a bigger one for not much more, and they are probably
faster than the one you are currently using.(especially the ones with an 8MB
cache)

Alan
 
Replace it as soon as you can. As he said you can get them cheep. Frys had them on sale with rebate for like $50.00 for a 80GB Maxtor 7200RPM
 
Thanks for the replies I will try to get the warranty to kick in as I
have about five months left.
 
FWIW Every WD HDD that I have ever owned has been
noisy, (click click click) going back to the first one that I
owned which was a whole 1GB state of the art, at the time.
You are going to have a hard time to RMA this drive if
no errors show up in the Life guard Diagnostics. To be on
the safe side back up your data and then run the Diagnostic
from a boot floppy several times. If no errors show up you
may have cross linked and/or corrupted files.
 
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