T22 hard drive sometimes clicks......why?

[dorronto]

I have a friends T22 with a 30gb hard drive. Sometimes the hd clicks and nothing else, meaning just the IBM splash screen. Other times the hard drive loads Windows fine.

I believe the hard drive IS GOOD..............What else can be causing the hard drive to click. I keep re-inserting the drive just to make sure it's connected...

Any other idea's why this is happening???? Could it be the motherboard??

Thanks,
Ron

[Harryc]

Ron, it is possible that it's an IDE controller, bay connection, or power problem on the system board. Have you run diagnostics on the hard drive?

[dorronto]

No I haven't Harry...........

Ron

PS...now I can't get the drive to fully load, starts to load and that's it!

[Reo51St]

http://hddguru.com

Get MHDD make the floppy. Then boot from floppy and run scan on your HDD. Scan will not destroy any data. It will tell you if you have bad spots and slow spots.

If you decide to start from the begining and reload the OS run NHPA first then erase. NHPA returns the drive to factory default "some drives will appear to be 36 Gig but are 40 Gig" that means the drive was cut" NHPA will return it to factory default and erase will clean up slow spots. During scan you will see that it gives you the seek times. Erase will speed them up for you.

This is a VERY GOOD program for testing drives and everyone should have a copy of it.

Good luck.