Hard Disk Sound Leads To Hanging Help !!!!!

[expertno.1]

from two three days i am finding that sometime my harddisk creates a sound like this "tarak" "tarak" seems like any metal is beating the hard disk

and the hell is that whenevr the sound comes my comp hangs for 5-6 seconds

the length of the sound is "2-3" seconds

whenver the sound comes my computer hangs but comes again after 10-20 seconds

Help me Yaar

sometimes even the sound goes on tarak tarak tarak tarak tarak and contimues and my comp gets hanged for 40-50 seonds

plz help

[digen]

Is this sound like "clicking".
My suggestion would be to first backup all your data & then make sure its indeed from the hard drive.When it comes to failing hard drives there are no second chances to backup your data.

Try enabling S.M.A.R.T from the BIOS & see if it gives any indication of a failing drive.

[expertno.1]

well is there any risk

yes the sound is clicking sound

also

enabling S.M.A.R.T will tell me when the hard disk is going to crash ? how will it tell me i mean in which interface

[digen]

Dude if you are sure its the "clicking" sound then backup your data first.Copy or clone the drive using disk imaging software & then try what its undergoing.

Yes,enabling S.M.A.R.T will in most cases inform you of the state of the hard drive[i.e it predicts the drive of any failures occur in the near future & thereby ask you to backup your data or replace to a new hard drive]

Try out [url=http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/]Active S.M.A.R.T/url] for a windows GUI alternative to S.M.A.R.T from BIOS.

how will it tell me i mean in which interface

Enable S.M.A.R.T on the drive which is failing on you.Try with active smart first if no such option exists in the BIOS.

[q3_abhi]

You will get a message at the boot up. Something SMART failure detected. I get this problem everytime as my disk has developed some bad sectors but it's working fine.

Back up ur data n format ur hard disk with DM - Disk manager.

[krish]

This happened to my older HDD. But I was lucky that it was in the warrenty. I got it replaced. expertno.1 I'm sorry but I think your HDD is in its last stages!!

[expertno.1]

hey hey but many times the clicking sound doesn't comes like this time i am posting there is no sound from the beginnign of the booting process

also

i have enabled S.M.A.R.T

will backup my data