At college one day, We booted an early pentium 166, and the hard
drive, a Maxtor 850MB, made a constant 'rat-tat-cling-tong' noise
that sounded like a screw rolling inside a tin can...Every second or
so, it sounded normal. This made Win95 take 17 min. to load! After
every min. or so of normal-386-like performance, along with the HD
'tick-cling-clinging' away, a blue screen read:
DISK WRITE ERROR!
DATA OR FILES MAY BE LOST.
But if you pressed a key, Win95 would continue, for another 4-5 min,
to operate slowly, without problems!
Could this mean trouble, if it happened to MY machine? What does the
'clickety-clacking' mean for, and what is it related to in a HD?
Nick
P.S.- Anyone had experience with a HD that sounds like a train? What
could be causing that?
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