6 month old Samsung HD clicking

Tom Dunne

As per the title, I've a 6 month old PC with a Samsung HD in it that has started to make a noise every 5 seconds or so.

I've backed everything up as I fear the inevitable, but is there anything I can do to save it? I can't find any kind of utility on the Samsung website. I've turned SMART on in the BIOS and it doesn't appear to be reporting anything. Checkdisk won't complete.

Is my HD buggered?

Edit: the utility was second hit on Google. FFS, I spend 1 hour searching the manufacturers website and get nothing, I spend 2 seconds on Google and it brings me straight to it.

uberpixie

Tom Dunne wrote: »

As per the title, I've a 6 month old PC with a Samsung HD in it that has started to make a noise every 5 seconds or so.

I've backed everything up as I fear the inevitable, but is there anything I can do to save it? I can't find any kind of utility on the Samsung website. I've turned SMART on in the BIOS and it doesn't appear to be reporting anything. Checkdisk won't complete.

Is my HD buggered?

Edit: the utility was second hit on Google. FFS, I spend 1 hour searching the manufacturers website and get nothing, I spend 2 seconds on Google and it brings me straight to it.

If it is constantly clicking, then it is on the way out.

Time to get a replacement.

AlmightyCushion

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Edit: the utility was second hit on Google. FFS, I spend 1 hour searching the manufacturers website and get nothing, I spend 2 seconds on Google and it brings me straight to it.

I hate when that happens. As said above, it sounds like it's fooked.

Sherifu

I concur.

keen

Tom Dunne wrote: »

As per the title, I've a 6 month old PC with a Samsung HD in it that has started to make a noise every 5 seconds or so.

I've backed everything up as I fear the inevitable, but is there anything I can do to save it? I can't find any kind of utility on the Samsung website. I've turned SMART on in the BIOS and it doesn't appear to be reporting anything. Checkdisk won't complete.

Is my HD buggered?

Edit: the utility was second hit on Google. FFS, I spend 1 hour searching the manufacturers website and get nothing, I spend 2 seconds on Google and it brings me straight to it.

You could give Spinrite a shot, http://www.grc.com/intro.htm

Tom Dunne

Oh the joy I am having.

It's a Meida center PC, as I said, only six months old.

Initially, I had trouble booting from the CD (HD was set to boot first), so I pressed F12 to get into the boot menu. Couldn't go any further, because it stopped responding to my wireless keyboard. Tried it several times, it just doesn't like the keyboard for some reason (even though the BIOS allows me to press F12).

Downloaded the Samsung utility, it makes a CD that you have to boot into DOS to run. Can I hell get into DOS using my wireless keyboard? No.

Downloaded Universal Boot CD. It boots up fine, but asks you to press enter to boot from the CD. Can I press enter with my wireless keyboard? No.

Very f**king frustrating. I now have to source a wired keyboard.

PogMoThoin

Back up quick as soon as you hear the "click of death"

FrankGrimes

Hey Tom, I had a similar problem with the wireless keyboard yesterday when I was running Ultimate Boot CD and after hopping my keyboard around the room for a while I remembered I had one of those purple USB to Serial/PS2 connections for a keyboard. Once I connected using that I was able to boot Ultimate Boot CD.