I don't think it is going to matter what type of drive it is, but I will
tell you I have had 2 western digitals go out within a month of their making
a clicking noise. You did not mention how old the HDD was, but I would tell
you to go ahead and get ready to buy a new one. Replacing a 160 gig drive is
not all that expensive today.

<antimon@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a 160gigs samsung sata hdd, a week ago (after a power outage),
> it atarted to make a "clicking" sound at random times, like it restarts
>
> itself and so windows hangs a little while, then everything works fine.
>
> I did not care about the clicking till today, thought it might be about
>
> windows or something but it did happen a couple more times today.
>
> So i backed up everything important and downloaded the tool named
> "hutil" from seagate website. It is a hdd diagnose tool. And it could
> not pass the "surface read test" cause of a couple of ecc errors. Does
> it mean it has bad sectors? What should i do? As it works fine, isn't
> it possible to mark that sectors causing errors not usable or
> something? Or is it time to buy a new one?
> I had no experience with hdd failures so i don't know what to do.
> Please help me about this.
>
> Thanks.
>