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Hard Drive Click
Name: ben Date: August 12, 2001 at 12:23:56 Pacific
Comment:
Im running win 98se on a 450mhz 128mb and it seems every once and a while ususally when im donwloading or ripping a dvd, my hard drive will make a click. Its only about 2 months old. Its 60 gigabytes, 7200rpm , ata 100(but i have running on regular ide) and made by Western Digital. Is this clicking normal? I thought maybe it was just switching platters and thats why it clicked. Also, this didnt happen right off the bat. I didnt start happening until i started filling up my drive.
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