hi,
My dad got my sister a used crappy Compaq. A 667Mhz Celeron *laughs*. It came with two hard drives. I formatted and installed Windows 98[ I don't have the XP cd]. It came with two hard drives. One was a Compaq 15 GB, the one it came with, when the previous owner bought it, and a WD 40 GB. I wasn't able to install WIndows on the 40 GB, cause it had about 3/4 of the drivbe full off damaged/bad clusters [damn you WD]. Two days later, after updated and every other driver installed, a PC clean up, etc, a clicking noise came on. I narrowed it to the WD. That hard drive was sitting in the floppy drive bay, it heated up crazy! I took it out, and saw a sticker saying: WARNING! DO NOT COVER THE HOLES ON THE HD! That bay was covering all six holes. I moved it where the Compaq HD was, it was sitting rear end up. That was the only way you could have installed it. I moved it there, and put the Compaq below the floppy, since the Compaq had no holes. I booted it up, and the clicking stopped. But, it froze where the splash screen comes on. THen I set my Compaq to Master, and it booted up fine. However, there were lags, lots of them. I removed the WD, and there were no lags. When I put it back in, it started clicking again
! I got so pissed off, that I punched the WD, and somehow, the clicking stopped. Everytime it did that, I punched it and it stopped. However this time it didn't, it's still clikcing as I type. I took the top sticker off, and it unveiled the hard drive! WTF!!!! A STICKER WAS COVERING THE HARD DRIVE!!!!! Damn, was I FREAKED! The platter kept spinning at 7200 RPM, it made so much noise, it felt like a fan. I quickly put the sticker back on. Man, I hope i\I didn't get any dust there, cause, DAMN! Anyways..... WTF is wrong with my hard drive?
My dad got my sister a used crappy Compaq. A 667Mhz Celeron *laughs*. It came with two hard drives. I formatted and installed Windows 98[ I don't have the XP cd]. It came with two hard drives. One was a Compaq 15 GB, the one it came with, when the previous owner bought it, and a WD 40 GB. I wasn't able to install WIndows on the 40 GB, cause it had about 3/4 of the drivbe full off damaged/bad clusters [damn you WD]. Two days later, after updated and every other driver installed, a PC clean up, etc, a clicking noise came on. I narrowed it to the WD. That hard drive was sitting in the floppy drive bay, it heated up crazy! I took it out, and saw a sticker saying: WARNING! DO NOT COVER THE HOLES ON THE HD! That bay was covering all six holes. I moved it where the Compaq HD was, it was sitting rear end up. That was the only way you could have installed it. I moved it there, and put the Compaq below the floppy, since the Compaq had no holes. I booted it up, and the clicking stopped. But, it froze where the splash screen comes on. THen I set my Compaq to Master, and it booted up fine. However, there were lags, lots of them. I removed the WD, and there were no lags. When I put it back in, it started clicking again
! I got so pissed off, that I punched the WD, and somehow, the clicking stopped. Everytime it did that, I punched it and it stopped. However this time it didn't, it's still clikcing as I type. I took the top sticker off, and it unveiled the hard drive! WTF!!!! A STICKER WAS COVERING THE HARD DRIVE!!!!! Damn, was I FREAKED! The platter kept spinning at 7200 RPM, it made so much noise, it felt like a fan. I quickly put the sticker back on. Man, I hope i\I didn't get any dust there, cause, DAMN! Anyways..... WTF is wrong with my hard drive?
