After this happened a second time, I checked the power lead as Mark
suggested and that seems to have corrected the problem.  So far so good.
 I still intend to check out Western Digital's web site for the utility Mark
mentioned.
 Thanks everyone.

Gary


Mark Rode wrote:

> The first thing to do is check your power lead....make sure it is direct to
> the power supply and that it is firmly seated. You might want to put a
> meter on the power lead to make sure the PS is working correctly.  I once
> had what I thought was a dying hard drive that turned out to be a faulty
> power lead Y. Unfortunately I had already replaced the drive before I
> discovered this.
>
> Second go to Western Digital's web page and get their utility for checking
> , diagnosing and repairing their hard drives. Put the WD on one controller
> by itself. Put the file on a boot floppy....do a clean boot and run it. If
> it comes back and says the drive is OK then the odds are it isn't your drive.
>
> m
>
> > I have a PII-300 using Win98 and a 6.4 gig Western Digital HD. Everything
> >has been running fine until last night when I tried to use the computer
> >after it had been idle for a few hours. Everything was locked up so I hit
> >reset. When Windows tried to run scandisk after the reset it would go to a
> >certain point of the surface scan and stop with a clanking noise coming from
> >the HD. If I hit reset again and cancel scandisk,  it boots normally but
> >does this every time I try to run scandisk.  Any ideas? Is my HD dying?  The
> >HD is only about 6 months old but I did swap it from another computer to
> >this one and did a complete reformat, but it had been acting fine for the
> >couple of weeks since.  Any help would be very much appreciated.
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Gary Raynes
>
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