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Thank you for your information.<br><br>I am going to replace the hard drive and the specification is 2.5’’, UltraDMA 100, S.M.A.R.T 9.5mmH . When I looked up in maplin and it has SATA or ATA. Which one do you think my drive is ?<br><br>Please advise.<br><br><br>> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 23:35:32 +0000<br>> From: gllug@lgeezer.net<br>> To: gllug@gllug.org.uk<br>> Subject: Re: [Gllug] repeat soft noise from hard drive<br>> <br>> Diana Scott wrote:<br>> > For reasons I was having difficulties booting up , so I delete the <br>> > partition and reinstall the software but the installation was stuck in <br>> > the middle not able to complete and I can hear a soft noise repeatedly <br>> > from the hard drive. Although I have still access to the data file using <br>> > ubuntu, the hard drive is now unbootable.<br>> <br>> A noise sufficiently distinct to be discerned as repeating often means <br>> the drive is constantly trying to read (find?) an area of the disk, <br>> fails, and so returns to the outer edge to try again. The suggestion <br>> here is that part of the disk surface is damaged either physically <br>> (dust, head collision etc) or magnetically. Either is Bad.<br>> <br>> > How can I fix this hard drive problem ?<br>> <br>> By replacing the hard drive.<br>> <br>> Cheers,<br>> -- <br>> Alistair Mann<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Gllug mailing list - Gllug@gllug.org.uk<br>> http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug<br><br /><hr />Great search results, great prizes. BigSnapSearch.com <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/117442309/direct/01/' target='_new'>Search now</a></body>
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