hopefully this is the right section; but hey, i have a question about a hard drive issue im having...
this is not on my mx17, btw.
I have a harddrive that just ticks about every 3 seconds (pretty consistant) during which its basically frozen (nothing reads it, it's basically crashed)
sounds kinda like a watch hands that can be heard accross the room, sortof:
TICK then i can cound 1 2 3 and TICK again.
sometimes (about 10% of the time) i can get it to stay on without ticking for about 20 mins before it resumes to its ticking.
I was wondering if anyone had any idea of what could cause this and if there was a way i could possibly fix it myself?
To replace it i would have to get another HD of at least equal size (my extra's are half of it right now) so just trying to save a bit of $ is all here. and parts -_X
this is not on my mx17, btw.
I have a harddrive that just ticks about every 3 seconds (pretty consistant) during which its basically frozen (nothing reads it, it's basically crashed)
sounds kinda like a watch hands that can be heard accross the room, sortof:
TICK then i can cound 1 2 3 and TICK again.
sometimes (about 10% of the time) i can get it to stay on without ticking for about 20 mins before it resumes to its ticking.
I was wondering if anyone had any idea of what could cause this and if there was a way i could possibly fix it myself?
To replace it i would have to get another HD of at least equal size (my extra's are half of it right now) so just trying to save a bit of $ is all here. and parts -_X