Hard drive clicked and Windows crashed but is now running fine.?

Question

A few hours ago i was using my computer then i heard a huge click and pew. Windows locked up and blue screened. After a reboot windows is performing normally but occasionally the hard drive does make a new noise, like a scrape noise. I scanned the hard drive for errors and opened crystal disk info but both said the hard drive is in perfect health. Should i continue to use the drive or replace it as soon as possible?

Answer 1

could be power supply yes replace drive if not power supply.. could also be that the cable plugged into the back of the video card is not allowing the video card to seat properly and so you might need to push video card back down in slot by opening case while computer is off

Answer 2

Look in the Windows event logs. Control Panel >> Administrative Tools >> Event Log Viewer. You want to look at the System logs to see if your disk events are showing up.



The good news is as long as the disk is running, you have a chance to do a backup. The bad news is that your description is the first sign of a disk about to go >>ka-pow<< on you. My wife's old XP system did this to her. It was a slowly degrading disk and once it went, it went down hard. Fortunately, I had backed up her "My Documents" folder and she never stored anything anywhere else, so she was in relatively good shape on the new machine I had to buy for her. But to be honest, her old XP system had worked for her for over 12 years, so it's not like it owed her that much anyway.

Answer 3

If CrystalDiskInfo doesn't show any problems, then it's possible it was just a one-time thing. But keep monitoring with CrystalDisk. Or better yet, monitor it with Hard Disk Sentinel, it will keep track of its history, and tell you if it's time to replace.

Answer 4

You need to backup drive then replace it

Answer 5

Unusual noise from a hard drive is sign of imminent failure. You should back up your data ASAP. Once you know it's going bad, it's not a matter of if it will fail, it's a matter of when. it could be the next time you turn on the PC or a few months down the road. It's better to back everything up and avoid that gamble.

Answer 6

Replace the hard drive with a new one. Then clone the old hard drive to the new one.

Answer 7

get replacement asap and transfer everything

Answer 8

You better make a system image on an external drive cuz once it crashes once it will crash again and you better have a backup unless you want to lose all your data

Answer 9

Yea that's a bad sign even if the SMART readings don't show anything wrong. I'd back up your data and get a new hard drive.

Answer 10

Replace it ASAP. If it happened once, it'll probably happen again and soon.

Answer 11

Some time a click is just temporary but if it repeat itself, then it's an alarm for future failure. Overall a drive with some kind of small or large problem will click. So it is not a good thing overall. The best strategy is to backup the data all the time. Thanks.

Answer 12

run check disk now and then. and it should be ok.