Before you throw out the hd, hang a different drive on the motherboared.

I say this as my experience has been that two of my motherboards were
somehow damaged by power outages or surges, and the clicking was the first
symptom. Over about a month, the system became unusable due to disc errors
and it was only when I hung a cloned drive which was fine on that I REALISED
WHERE THE PROBLEM WAS.

I HAD TO STOP USING IT AS IT WAS TRASHING ANY DRIVE HOOKED TO IT BY,
PRESUMABLY, WRITING TO WHERE IT WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO.

you CAN OF COURSE REPAIR THE DAMAGE DONE, IF IT IS THE MOTHER BOARD, AND
REUSE THE DRIVES. I HAVE TWO HERE THAT WERE IN THAT ILL FATED MACHINE.

either WAY, A SUBSTITUTION TEST OF DRIVE IN ANOTHER MACHINE OR VICE VERSA
(use 98 AS THIS WILL BOOT ON ANY OLD HARDWARE).

bRIAN

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<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.
>