Clicking is a bad sound and an indication that the drive is getting ready to die, see if it is still
under warranty so you can get a replacement. If not under warranty just buy a new one. The surface
scan test may mean bad sectors on the disk or a failure in the read/write heads.
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Dave Vair
CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+

<antimon@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1136080744.317474.283770@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com...
> 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.
>