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Sounds as if your hard disc is failing

You won't loose your data Why wold you think you would? once data is written to a hard drive it remains there until it is removed be a user, it works on the same principlea a floppy, the magnetic coating on the surface of the anodized disks inside of the HD are written to and retain memory of the data, the only things in a computer that won't keep their data are the RAM chips which need electricity running through them to work.

check the power cord of your hard disk. It should be tight not loose, if not solve then change the power cord.

Most drives are under warranty for three years from purchase date.

You can check to see if it's under warranty from Hitachi HERE.

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These are to tell the unit if it is to use Master, Slave or CS settings

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Ignore the format drive pop up and open the "my computer" icon and see if the drive is listed in the devices shown there. If it is click on that drive and the files and folders will appear like any other. If it doesn't appear right off, reboot, but leave the drive attached vis USB and see if the computer will recognise it and list it.

Hello there DLBurkhart.

Here's your geek-steer ...

"...is emitting strange whining sounds every now and then ... Is this strange noise a sign of an impending problem?" == EVERY strange HDD noise is ALWAYS a sign of impending failure.

Peform a "Check Disk" on it ...

chkdsk DRIVE_LETTER /X /R

• There should be NO surface errors if it's new(er).
• Regardless, if it's new, then immediately insist upon a replacement.

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go here ( http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HDD-Regenerator.shtml ) download software install and run a clean and repair option and see if you can acess the drive if not sorry means that the drive dont spin at this point you can not do any more thanks

there are few thing you ahve to keep in mind

there are two type of hard disk
1. IDE
2. SATA

As per your hdd capacity it should of IDE type.

Now there are two IDE slots on motherboard. One is Primary and other is Secondary

You can fix two hdd with one IDE Slot that mean you can fix up upto faour IDE hdd at a time

Now again there are Primary master and Primary Slave

and

Secondary Master and Secondary Slave

Now You have to examine what was the location of previous hdd
1 Primary Master
2 Primary Slave
3 Secondary Master
4 Secondary Slave.

Now you have to make a HDD master or Slave.

just in between data cable connector and power cable connector there is a jumper. that specify the master or slave. do reply me if it works well thanks

Hi,

If you have the tools and experience the circuit board can be replaced and assuming that is all that is wrong you may be able to get the data back. The main problem with this is that it can be diffucult to find the right circuit board.

You can try ebay, buy a refurbished drive which may have a universal board for that series on it and cross your fingers. If that works you should be ok, if not you may need the help of a pro. If you need a pro, reply back with your location(Country, State, City) and I will be happy to provide a recommendation.

Hope this helps FixYa,

Chris

Dear friend you need a sata board to get maximum speed of sata driver connect it directly to motherboard sata jack converter does not give full sata speed

Hi,

I am not sure if you have another partition on the drive. If yes insert the xp cd first and delete the drive. Now try installing linux and while the installation point the deleted drive. It would automatically format it as per linux requirements and thus have both xp and linux installed on the same machine.

If you are talking about installing the linux on the same partition as of windows xp then the process would be different. You need to delete the partition using Partition Magic and then go ahead with Linux installation. Linux does not understand Fat32 or NTFS thus will not install on the xp partition without formating.

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If the noise is like a repetitive ticking or clicking. Well, the sorry to say that the hard drive had crashed... which makes the noise... And sorry to tell you that you cannot do anything but to buy another...

sorry... Fixya!!!

if that's still in warranty period, you can ask new harddrive. Just take your CPU to the shop where you buy if you can't open your cpu

Click on your Windows start menu. Select Control Panel>Performance and maintenance. Run the Disk cleanup utility. Run the Disk Defragmenter. When all these steps are complete reboot. Your hdd should run faster. Hope this helps & please take a moment to rate this solution. Thanks.

• Right Click [My Computer] and click Manage

• Click Disk Management on the left side

• Inspect the drives listed. The new drive may need to be formatted for the operating system to recognize it and assign it a letter.

• To format the drive, right click the drive with no letter, and click Format. Choose your format (Preferred NTFS), and quick format the drive so that windows recognizes it.
  

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try to contact nearest hitachi service center..there they can replace it easily......

Add a letter for this HDD in "control panel\performance and maintenance\administrator tools\computer manager=ment\disk management"