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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Cobra951 on Tuesday, April 08, 2008, 09:12:27 AM
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I've had the worst luck lately with electronic equipment. My 360 RRoD'd, then the Time-Warner modem started dropping 40% of packets. Those things got replaced, and now it seems I've lost an external drive. I've had the thing for several years--4, I think. It got a lot of heavy use, and it had my main download folder. It now clicks, spins down, spins back up and clicks again. I can't access it at all. Damn it to hell. Any chance a good whack would unstick whatever is stuck? Just a thought.
I'm downright paranoid now. I'm duplicating everything essential and irreplaceable to other physical drives, when I can think of what that may be. Chances are I'll never catch everything. Do the MTBF ratings equate to just a few years of continuous use? God, if this happens to C: or D:, I'm really screwed. My backup PC died catastrophically last year. *Sigh*
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Yeah a clicking drive is very bad. If you want, you can download some diagnostic utility and see what's up, but it is almost certainly failing.
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I had a drive that clicked for a good 6 months before it finally died. It wasn't bad at first, but it slowly got worse. At the end it would click for an eternity before it worked.
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I would settle for that problem. I have plenty of free space on another drive, and I could just copy everything over. But no. It's deader than a doornail. It happened all of a sudden. It happened when I was sitting right here, dealing with MS support about the problem with XBLA games not working offline on a different 360. I couldn't believe it. Shit of this magnitude usually happens one turd at a time. >:(