On Wednesday 19 May 2004 20:31, Thom Nuzum wrote:
Thanks Ben, Well I rebooted a couple of times and I am back in Windows with no clicking sound. I think I will keep rebooting until something goes, but will exchange it Tomorrow anyway: i don't know what else the sound could have been.
* Thom Nuzum (linux@tendata.com) [040519 16:50]:
I spoke too soon. On my fourth boot into Windows I have lost my Boot Loader completely and what followed was an awful clicking sound and a boot into SuSE. My system bios now flashes around like crazy opening and closing things. My hard drive is new so I can return it. I suspect it is finished. Can anyone recommend a workable hard drive if thats my problem. Mine was a Maxtor 250GB (they were on sale and had the Novell stamp of approval) very funny.
But that was for Netware. If you want to use SUSE then you have to choose Seagate. ;)
I refuse to buy Maxtors after I had 3 die on me in a 6 month period. I avoid them if possible.
/snip/ All hd's fail sooner or later. I've had better luck with IBM than any others, over a period of maybe 15 years of hd's, but one of my IBM SCSI's just died. It was maybe 7 years old, at most. Of course, it was the one that had Linux on it. This machine is running SuSE 9.1 and MSW on IBM EIDE's. My first EIDE's in a long time, and I have no history for them. The machine is new. --doug