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Thread ID: 3652	2000-02-24 08:42:00	Hard disc failure??	Guest (0)	Press F1

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4077	2000-02-24 08:42:00	I have a second hard disc on my system that I use for back-ups downloads etc. While using the computer today I noticed that this drive started making noises as though it were writing data to the disc. Thinking that the disc might have been on the way to failing I thought I would see if I could copy some of the back-ups onto my main hard disc. While doing this there was a loud mechanical scraping noise from the second disc and the noise stopped. On a restart the disc action has started up again and is still going consistently. Now I have found that the folder I was trying to copy is empty! My questions are: - is the hard disc likely to be failing? - have I lost what I had in the folder concerned? - what can I do about preserving what is left on this disc? I tried disabling the disc in the BIOS but it continues to run and run noisy. The hard disc concerned is a Quantum Bigfoot 1.2GB. My main H/D is a Seagate 4.3GB. As an aside, i was warned about 12 months ago that the Quantum HD would eventually fail. The computer is going fine apart from this noise. Any thoughts would be appreciated. System specs are: IDT Winchip 2 3D Now; Win98; 64MB RAM; Diamond Viper V550 video card. Thanks Darryl Lennane	Guest (0)
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