Hard drive problem

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Well my guess is its my hard drive, but anyway here goes.
Today i was on my bed watching a movie and i herd a click come from my computer while it was running, its the same noise i hear when ever i shutdown my computer like the hard drives turning off.
But it makes this click noise and some times about 2-5 mins later it might click again and everything returns to normal, other times i have to restart because the system is totally halted. This is the first time it has ever done this and its rather annoying. I have downloaded diagnostic tools and they show both hard drives as fine, they are WD:C 17gig and a WD:C 80 gig both 7200rpm. Im runing windows xp, 1024 mb ram. Both hard drives are on the same IDE if that matters, i have run a virus check and nothing came back, its norton fully updated. I cant think of anything else useful to post but let me know if you need any more info.

Thanks for those who help
Borris
 
If it's clicking, usually the head is stalling. Backup the data soonest...
and pray you still have a warranty on the drive. DO NOT DELAY!

Yes, they die..... I've had plenty die on me.... even a three month old
drive has died. Heed the warning.

Cari
www.coribright.com
 
Is there any way to determine what drive it is that is failing? Since the systems hangs would that make it the one with the OS installed on it?
 
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