The clicking sound often indicates serious problems are imminent. Have
you checked the SMART status? There are many diagnostic prams available,
and your drive manufacturer probably offers one.

Chkdsk /r might help, but replacing the drive sounds like the best plan.
Your clone and replace plan will work. I have used a USB adapter to do
this in the past to save all the drive swapping.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard Drive problem
From: sue <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, March 15, 2010 7:41 pm
To: [log in to unmask]

 WinXP SP3
2.5 mg RAM
2 Hard drives - C:-160g D: - 160g (Sata)
2 External drives - USB--both 1T
DVD Read Drive
DVD Write Drive

All data backed up via Karen's Replicator to an external drive
C: drive imaged with Acronis Image.


Here's the problem:
C: drive is clicking and freezing at times. Have to hold "off" 
button to turn off the machine. No pattern on the instances. Some 
days I can work for hours with no problem. Other days, it will 
happen several times and I have to shut down Checked temp of both 
drives with software and neither gets hotter than 50C.

Googling, I find that bad sectors can cause these symptoms along with 
the drive going bad. I'm tending to think that might be the 
problem as it always occurs while running programs...never on boot up 
or shut down. Have not "checked disk" through 
C:/Properties/Tools/Error Checking yet. Would "check disk" help?

My question is:
Can I take out the D: drive, install a New Hard Drive to D: and then 
clone the C: drive to the new D: drive using Acronis? After that, 
take the new D: drive and install it as C:? Will I be able to boot 
with that new drive as C:?

I'm interested in any problems I might encounter with this procedure 
if the procedure is viable or feasible.

Sue Na
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