[Gllug] repeat soft noise from hard drive

[Diana Scott]

Thank you for your information.

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 ?

Please advise.


> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 23:35:32 +0000
> From: gllug at lgeezer.net
> To: gllug at gllug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] repeat soft noise from hard drive
> 
> Diana Scott wrote:
> > For reasons I was having difficulties booting up , so I delete the 
> > partition and reinstall the software but the installation was stuck in 
> > the middle not able to complete and I can hear a soft noise repeatedly 
> > from the hard drive. Although I have still access to the data file using 
> > ubuntu, the hard drive is now unbootable.
> 
> A noise sufficiently distinct to be discerned as repeating often means 
> the drive is constantly trying to read (find?) an area of the disk, 
> fails, and so returns to the outer edge to try again. The suggestion 
> here is that part of the disk surface is damaged either physically 
> (dust, head collision etc) or magnetically. Either is Bad.
> 
> > How can I fix this hard drive problem ?
> 
> By replacing the hard drive.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Alistair Mann
> 
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