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Annoying (and wrong sounding) clicking sounds
Anyone have this issue where this disk constantly (with some breaks) clicks? Clicks that hard disks shouldn't do I think. Can I ignore this, or is this a fault with the disk?
Hi cdrum, mine is working fine very quiet and good speed I am using it with media center and having no problem with it, do chkdsk on it and see if it finds any bad sectors on it. Hard disks make clicking sounds before they die.
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Make sure it's plugged into a USB port that is directly connected to the motherboard so it gets enough power. My two are fine and dandy!
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I had the same problem but I returned it and the replacement worked fine... only problem was it took time for me to figure out how to do that because you usually need to go through SeaTools which couldn't figure out what was wrong.... eventually you have to just send them an email or something....
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Clicking sounds is generally bad - it's an indication that the drive is about to die soon. Try to get the data off or back it up somewhere else. If it's just a backup/image of your current computer, then it's fine. If its the primary storage for some data though, consider moving it off.
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This issue ended up showing up on both our drives. It's as simple as going in through Seagate Tools and the powersaving options for the drive to never power down, as this was actually the source; it couldn't power back up properly. When you don't need it, just unplug it!
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