Cause for worry? Clicking on boot
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:18 pm
My 500GB Samsung clicks when I first boot it up from a cold start; when I restart it doesn't do it, only on boot. Is this normal or cause for concern?
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Repeated clicking is the sign of a failing hard drive as the head is searching over and over again in the same sector for data that may be corrupted. This may be a head-park test when the system is powered up. If the problem does not occur during intense disk activity, I don't think you have anything to worry about. However, you may want to do a chkdsk on it and view the log file when you're done to check for any bad sectors that may have been found.deathspared wrote:Clicking is often a sound of a failing hard drive. If this just started I would be worried. Either way, now would be a good time to make a backup just in case!