What the click of death that you might hear from your hard drive actually is
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2018
- A failing hard drive sometimes emits a really distinctive sound. In this video I show you how the inside of the hard drive looks while making that sound.
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Wth, are u tamil? , It's a Tamil Word bro 😂
I'm not and I know :)
I just liked how it looks.
@@UltimateDIY Hmm, Thank you , I'm Tamil 😊
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Thank you so much for clear explanations and demonstrations! Stay safe, everyone
Welcome!
Well dang. I looked for some of my Blender files and realized my whole drive was gone. I hot swapped it out and back in and this click is what I'm greeted to. Funny though, that was my backup, so my backup failed before any actual used drives did lol. Really helpful info though, thanks for sharing.
Weirdly enough, many drives fail like this...
For mission critical files, always follow the 3 2 1 rule:
3 copies of your data
across 2 different types of media
1 of which is physically in a different location
Agreed 👍🏼
Funny thing is this is exactly what happened to me… Looked for some Blender files the other day and noticed my hard drive wasn’t working, then I unplugged and plugged it back in and panicked because it started clicking…
I wasn't getting the click of death but I was getting the power saving occasional clicks, thank you for the explanation I am much less worried now!!! Very informative
Glad my video helped 👍🏼
Thank you for the explanation
Welcome!
Excellent video thx for posting
Welcome and thanks!
My PC is about 11 years old, all this time the Seagate Barracuda 750GB included has been working fine, about a couple of months ago I heard a series of constant clicks, they stopped after a reboot, now 2 months later I just had another series of clicks, sounded like a constant drop of water, followed by a blue screen which I could not read since it disappeared very quick. I rebooted with long press power button and now PC is working fine again.
I read that sometimes the clicking can be caused by a faulty PSU, the only change I did was to install a small SSD a couple of months ago.
Do you think I should replace my HDD? Having clicks every couple of months is also considered a click of death?
Maybe your hdd is starting to develop bad sectors. Sometimes also those can create clicking noises while the hdd attempts to read from them.
Do a disk surface scan and see what the status of the surface is.
@@UltimateDIY Thank you, which software is recommended for a disk surface scan?
I use this: www.hdsentinel.com/help/en/61_surfacetest.html
how can you do animation on a 11 years old pc?
Bought a HDWD240UZSVA (Toshiba, 4TB, SMR, 3.5'', P300) recently... That aggressive parking is driving me crazy. Was searching all around for some HDD click videos. Yours is educational and helpful. Thanks. As for my case, the thing parks the moment data access/transfer is over. I appreciate the power saving, since I am not the only customer and that would help reduce burden on planet slightly. But I do not appreciate the mechanism hitting plastic over and over which causes owners to get more anxious and drives them nuts until they throw the HDD out of window and cause more e-waste.
You can solve the problem like this: czcams.com/video/D1IEdpFveJ8/video.html
@@UltimateDIYthe head on my data drive is just stuck in parking slot. It’s not going to the data platters to read and write. Data platters are clean but techs don’t want to fix it.
This is a great video!!! Thanks....
Glad you liked it!
This is why its always a good idea to back up hard drives. I keep at least two back ups. Cant risk losing invaluable data.
Yes, indeed. It's even recomended to have the backups in two separate locations (houses even).
i dont give a fuck about my data , but i got to fix an hdd so i can sell it
@DianeV You are beautiful 😊
Bih this is my back up drive lol
how does one backup +500 GB?
I can't even begin to express my frustration right now. I hired a so-called "professional" DIT team, and what did they do? First, they dropped my SSD during the shoot and broke it! Thank God I had the data backed up on other drives and could repair it. Then, as if that wasn't enough, during editing, one of my HDDs started making clicking noises and became unreadable. And guess what? I discovered they hadn't even made two backups as they should have.
At this point, words fail to describe my feelings toward them. I'm beyond disappointed and livid. This isn't just unprofessional; it's irresponsible. #FML
Sorry to hear that. Sadly, some people are just idiots 🤷🏻♂️
Good thing SSDs are now replacing most HDDs due to their short lives, etc. This could also be seen in most next gen laptops, computers, gaming consoles, etc.
Yes, it's the age of ssd, finally!
And has its own set of problems
That is also true.
Great vid, i enjoy these that show 'working parts'; good thing we now use SSD for our PC and laptops.
Indeed, but I have a friend who's new 512gb ssd failed after just a few months with 0 warnings. It was working well, then a blue screen and it wad gone. So that is a little scary.
@@UltimateDIY I know it's an old video but I tought SSD was the reliable option... Then what can I do to keep my data safe? In talking about almost twenty years of data that has been passed through different drives and I already lost several IMPORTANT archives and media due to drive deterioration and I was already on my way to migrate everything to SSD
Just have multiple backups. It's about the only way to keep your data safe.
Rightly said Agressive power savings and its related to longer durability..Thanks to Smart Allogrithims, God Bless 🙌
God bless!
why do manufacturers not use stronger material to hold that head, I mean after so many years of laptops with same "no bootable device" you'd think they'll create better hard drives
These days everything is built to the absolute minimum to maximise profits of manufacturers...
the "indectrutable drive" would be too costly. I think, 1GB drive could costs like 500$ or 1000$. They would be able to make drive that is very durable, but it would be not profitable. Everyone would buy 50$ or 100$ common drive.
Actually, there are more quality drives, for example WD "RE" series. But not many people buy them. They buy usually GREEN stuff, maybe BLUE. People are usually not willing to pay even 10-20$ extra, and often goes for cheaper solution. This forced them to make drives that are in most cases usable for 4-7 years, but from time to time, die. Seagate is good example of it. Once, it was maybe best hard-drive company, but then, they fallen... because of finantial issues.
There were also many very good motherboard manufacturers. Like AOpen, DFI, Abit, Soyo. They bankrupted, other companies bought them. Etc... Seagate bought Maxtor for example.
With your hard-drive, that is ultra durable, you would not survive on market, it would be too costly.
@@warrax111 Not everyone has 50 bucks in the bank or 50 dollars worth of gas in they're car. Hell some people are still on windows ME.
Designed obsolessence, designed to break after a curtain amount of time
Esclareceu a minha dúvida, a minha HD, fica clicando, coloquei o disco em outro dispositivo novo e continuou a mesma coisa,. Vendo o seu vídeo entendi o por que acontece isso. Muito obrigado pelas explicações.
This is why I'm buying an extra harddrive for backup
Good plan 👍🏼
My most loyal WD400 has died a few days ago. RIP LOADED WINDOWS XP IMSTALL
A moment of silence for the fallen hdd!
woops forgot ... sorry for the loss of your drive. That is a real pain.
Win some, lose some I guess...
the "not a click of death part (@ 6 min) gave me a bit of relief..
I bought a 14tb drive to merge /store & sort a bunch of data on and it sat for a long time. I made SURE it was secure (no drops/falls,etc) but finally installed it in my desktop computer..
there's nothing on it yet (just installed & partitioned) and I notice every several minutes, that 'click' but it's intermittent, and seems to time with inactive time.
- there's no programs on it; the CPU is running off a separate M2 SSD chip & my current useage storage is on an external SSD for the moment.
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With this power-cycle little clicks, is it bad design & I should really look for something else?
-Should I approach the Mfr warranty (before loading & processing lots of data) to swap out under warranty?
- kinda bummed as it was rather expensive for me, and I learned my lesson once from a different HDD that slipped about 6" on a shelf & tipped over & was dead (2TB HDD). I've been extremely careful with this one.
thanks for your experience & recommendation/suggestions.
Sadly, most drives come with such power saving features enabled. I would not worry over it and use the drive normally.
You already removed the screw of head pivot point during the removal of upper shell (as seen on upper right side in the video) so when coils energized head arm moves up due the to magnets then strikes the platter of course.
I don't have the drive to check, but would that not be a stupid design? To tighten that only trough the case. But the noise was made by the drive exactly the same before opening it up.
What is that weird rattling sound from behind
I own 2 hdd internal and one external hdd conected to my computer through rshtech docking station usb port. These hdd are one black caviar one red and one esential. When i wanted to acces all hdd in the same time the computer freezed and i had to use the power button on the back of docking station in order to restart. That docking station prevent my computer from shut down. After i restarted i noticed that all 3 hdd became more slow to respond after they are put to sleep. They wake up in 10 sec. Before the incident it took 2 sec. only. I also hear one slight click when they wake up. There are no health problem reported with hdtune yet. I have not check them for bad sector. What could have happen and if there is a way to solve out? Thank you for
the great review.
What I think happened: one of your hdds is starting to have problems and your system froze because of it. The fact that you were accessing all 3 at that time is a coincidence. You need to find the drive with problems, back up the data from it and do a full surface scan and maybe format it. Depending on the results you see if you can continue to use it or not.
I have the same issue after manually releasing the spinning heads from the platter. The thing is, the device driver is activated when hdd is connected, but the partition is not shown. Can someone tell me sweet-sweet lies and say that this is still somehow fixable? I don't care about the drive itself, maybe any chance to get data, or at least it's part from the drive?
I would contact a data recovery company.
My hard drive sometimes makes this clicking sound while I use my laptop, should I be concerned?
It might just be head parking if it only clicks once.
It clicks once every few minutes
Could be this: czcams.com/video/D1IEdpFveJ8/video.html
I sometimes hear only one click sound, happens random. Not sure if it's my 5 year old HDD or not. Since I switched my other Pc Parts two month ago.
But it happens since beginning of the year and so far it works just normal. 🙈
If it happens while the hdd is iddle, it might just be head parking.
@@UltimateDIY Thing is, I never noticed this sound before. Only since my GPU died on me, nearly giving me a Heart attack (cause it was sparkling), since that day I noticed the smalles sounds in fear something is dying again... 🙈
I know what you mean 😆
This constant click of death is only appearable when i load my hdd by launching or playing a high-end (for my PC) game, it doesnt do it when im surfing or leaving it idle. So what causes it?
Maybe a few bad sectors in the are where your game data is located.
Hi, I just a got a new laptop two days ago and I've noticed very quiet clicks coming from it. I've checked the HDD and it has no bad sectors. Do I need to replace it?
Hi. Many laptop hard drives have a really aggresive power management, so it might just be parking the heads really often. Also, it could be just read/write noises.
@@UltimateDIY Yes, it's a Lenovo laptop with AMD so it has both of their tools for power management and such! Thanks a lot, I'll check the settings in the respective apps.
i hear a v8 in my WD drive .. is that normal? blue or green dont remember...
my hard drive literally sounded like a cricket/Geiger counter
😯
Time to replace it...
Good morning dust!
Morning! 😄
My TOSHIBA HDD makimg click click sound, can it repair by any way??
Not really. Back up your data as soon as possible if it's still working.
It sounds like a car blinker 😂
😄
i had this issue so i swapped to a ssd and backed up all my files with a hard drive dock before it died.
Glad you saved the data in time.
My smaller external hard drive started making sounds after a fall and no longer pops up on the computer (showing up as "not recognized" and "unallocated" in disk management), is it the same thing? Sorry about the link: czcams.com/video/1IyvWwFFg7g/video.html
I would not power on such a hard drive anymore and directly send it to a data recovery company. But from the sounds in that video, it might be too late, as heads probably are scratching the platters.
@@UltimateDIY Thanks for the info!! If the heads are scratching, I probably won't send it in just to be told the same thing...
Maybe search for a company that has a cheap first look.
Hi i just got this on my hdd it clicks then my pc freeze and goes back to normal afterwards and repeats the same thing for a few minutes, should i be worried about it ?
Hi. Yes. You need to move your data to another hard drive as soon as possible. It can fail without further warning.
Okay thank you I'll just move to ssd because i have no spare hdd rip
My seagate barracuda is making a very soft crackling noise every about 15 seconds, what does this mean?
Could be just read/write noises.
If you have some sort of business email that I could contact you with, I’d be glad to send a video
You can upload it on yt and put a link here.
My hdd clicks only when i turn my system on, but sometimes it doesnt click.
I dont know of its my power supply because my system is working fine and i'm using the same sata power cable with ssd and hdd.
And i dont know if its the hdd or this cable.
Everything else is working fine.
Could be the first sigh of a failing hdd. I had one that started to do this about 1 or 2 years before finally failing.
@@UltimateDIY danm... this hdd have 2 years only.
If this fail i will buy an ssd
I don't understand how can't it be fixed if only that plastic is damaged? like it isn't screwed, the plates look good and heads too. Isn't it just replacing plastics?
A repair shop might be able to fix it to get data out, but without that plastics there was already head collision, so things might seem fine, but probably are not 100% fine.
My external drive does exactly this but it is not damaged. It was not dropped. I need to get my data off and I have tried using Disk Drill and others but they got no data after scanning. I guess it wasn't really scanning if it did this. What do you advice. I keep all my stuff on this drive and have no backup.
My advice is to contact a reputable data recovery company.
A week ago I noticed my pc making this exact click noise. My pc is really old so when it started making this noise I didn’t pay much attention to it, it would always make weird noises. Unfortunately, today I turned on my pc only to see a black screen saying, “Boot disk has not been detected or the boot disk has failed”. Does this have to do with the hard drive? Does the hard drive have anything to do with booting up my pc? I haven’t found any way to go around the black screen of death…
I don’t really care about my pc itself, but I have a ton of art projects I don’t have archived that I really want back. Can I also restore my data somehow??
@@moonimilk You could pay a technician to have data recovered but the chances are low, and the price is usually pretty high.
@@mulex8758 Yeaahhh I figured…but thanks :)
Yes of course it does. The hard drive is where your computer stores all it's software. Hard drive fails = no software, no go.
Yes, BIOS is telling you it cannot boot into Windows (Because either the connections go bad) or the drive has failed. Surprisingly, sometimes connections from the mother board port or on the drive itself are loose or failed. Check those first (Both the small plug (Data) and the larger Multi-wire one (Power). I have had those issues.
My hard drive just started clicking today it’s 8 years old
Save what you can from it now.
should i be concerned if i get 2 or 3 clicks during a day, every other day?
Have your data backed up just in case.
Hey so I was wondering.. I was upgrading my old macbook to ssd and put the old HDD into a CD Dolly. Now it makes very light, soft clicks.. Is that okay? I can't find the answer online with whatever I'm searching and I don't have any important info on it I just don't want to spend more money on another ssd. Do you think the HDD will be fine? It's tightened into the dolly as much as I could. Tried loosening too and didn't help.
Hi. Sorry, but I don't even know what a CD Dolly is.
@@UltimateDIY The thing you put in the Cd rom as an adapter for a hdd
Ah, a caddy. Maybe the hdd always made this noise, but only now you hear it because of a different location.
@@UltimateDIY I had it running without the cover on and it didn’t make it and it has more padding around the caddy so I don’t know why
That is weird. Maybe the caddy amplifies the sound somehow.
Mine goes TCK TCK TCK mer MAH. a second goes by. And it repeats. Over and over again. It only did it once.
That is failing sign.
Errors ☑️
Making click of death sound ☑️
Is seagate hdd ☑️
Not good...
@@UltimateDIY nope..
If i don't care about the data, and I only want to repair the drive, what can I do?
If the heads have already collided with the platters, there is nothing that you can do to fix it. It would require you to have a working donnor drive and replace damaged parts.
can't we replace the head and ramp and still hope for the hard drive to work?
Only if a specialised service does it.
@@UltimateDIY so, not click of death after all.
thanks for the info and quickest reply. kudos to you sir_/\_
Welcome!
Hi yesterday I got My HDD really like this, and cant open windows, so i change it to a new hard disk, but still can't get my old files, what should I have to do? (The disk is clean and there is no scratch on it)
Hi. You should not have opened it. You always try to use data recovery software.
@@UltimateDIY i already opened it because my computer can't even detect it, nothing will come when i plug that hard disk, can i use software like disk drill, without my computer reading the disk?
Sorry, but YT deleted your last comment. All I could see is that you already opened it because it was not detected, or something like this? In that case, there is no way to recover the data without a data recovery company.
For me the click of death happends when my pc starts to get used on a game or something. And after some time in the game that hdd keeps disconnecting and then reconnecting again. Nothing valuable on this drive, just want to know if it's the end for it.
Yup, either the hdd itself is bad of the cables connecting it.
@@UltimateDIY yh thanks
Welcome!
What if my Xbox hard drive makes a click noise ever 10-15 min?
That could be head parking.
i gave seagate i hear click make me so sad
Sorry to hear that.
is their any way to recover data after it dies ?
If the platters are scratched, not really. If they are in good condition, then they can be moved togeter with the electronic board into an identical hard drive. But all of this needs to be done in a clean room.
@@UltimateDIY they dont do either. They replacr heads and copy data to new disk
Got it :)
ugh, this laptop is only a couple years old and like 1600 dollars. Already the clicking. :(
Just make sure it's not the "harmless" head parking click.
Head damage under hard disk
Probably.
Hi, did you checked another heads below the plates?
When i plug my hard drive it click 2 times and shut off suddenly what problem and one more hard drive started with 2 or 3 time slightly clicking and running but no read when i boot my pc full screen logo stucks for 2 or 3 mintute after that bios open no disk shown in bios
For the first one, the heads might be stuck. The second one might have surface damage.
@@UltimateDIY surface damage means
Scratches on the disk platters.
its the read head where the F@&$ is track zero
My hard drive only does one click every now and then what's that all about
It might be aggresive power management forcing the heads to park.
@@UltimateDIY it's on a Xbox one so is it dying I've still got around 20 days so I can return it and get another one or should I just get me another hard drive and slap it in the Xbox
@@randomcro24 search online on forums for the particular hdd model that you have. I had one that was parking the heads extremely often. It was not a failure, it was designed like that. But I did not like it and modified it's firmware.
Video here: czcams.com/video/D1IEdpFveJ8/video.html
@@UltimateDIY thank you for the help
If your hard drive goes idle it parks then when it needs data it unparks. Some wd drives will spin down while idle
how can i fix it
Well...most times you can't.
@@UltimateDIY 😢😢 its 2.5 tb bro 😩😩😩😩
Sorry to hear that...
😱 It's Happening! Click! Click!
Noooooooooooooooooo! 😱😊
True, that sums up my reaction when I first heard the sound from this hdd.
Ultimate DIY 😊 yup heehee
Hy.... !!!! My laptop hdd makes a clik sound every 5 or 10 min, it is bad or normal?? thx for this video!!!
Could be head parking.
@@UltimateDIY do i neat to change my hdd ??? thx
Not really. Head parking is a standard feature. But, if the clicking noise is really loud and repetitive (also the pc starts to be slow) then the hdd has a problem.
WD green ? 500gb?
Sorry, but I don't really remember.
What do you do when the head behaves like that? Does it mean the disk is dead already?😭😭please answer me
Not necesarily already dead, but dying for sure. You can try to copy the data from it to a new drive.
@@UltimateDIY Hi bro,it can’t be detected on my Laptop so I can’t copy any data from it.What should I do, please?
Sadly, you need a data recovery company to take a look at it.
@@UltimateDIY Alright,thanks.
Right from Dell support center in India.
He's not even Indian. Grow up
He's a tree, what would you expect? 😄
@@UltimateDIY I think I hear a Romanian accent? :p
Indeed 🇷🇴✌🏼
@@UltimateDIY my Mrs in Romanian. Been there a few times, visited Bucharest, craiova, hunedoara, bals, and sibiu. Really nice place and even nicer people. Obviously you have a few bad people but you get them everywhere, definitely changed my outlook on the country and the people.
Multumesc!
Is something wrong with my hard drive because it clicks whenever im turning on my game. I checked it and it says its ok. And it doesn't click while im playing, only when starting the game
Really harc to guess. Could be just standard noise or the begining of a problem.
@@UltimateDIY I don't really know because I bought it 2 days ago. Hard Disk is: Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM008 2 TB
Second hand? That could be a problematic drive that someone wanted to get rid of. Just guessing...
@@UltimateDIY I bought it from a store. Its brand new. Im hoping that's normal and the disk is just doing that
Maybe it's just a loud drive then? Who knows...
my 4T seagate portable always has clicking sound. So bad the quality
Sorry to hear that.
My hard disk not detected no data 0gb size in bios
Sadly, the drive is peobably defective. If you have important data on it, contact a data recovery company.
my harddrive only does a clicking noice then disconnect then connect again when i copy data to it or installing on it what does that mean also not all the time
Could be normal sounds, but also a sign of possible problems. Depends a lot on how it sounds.
@UltimateDIY its a click then it stops then clicks again after a while like when it reaches the end then goes back but it disconnects then it reconnects again
@brandonbiochucky3116 disconnecting and reconnecting is not a good sign.
@UltimateDIY i did a format seems to be oky for now wonder could it be power because im running 12 harddrives a i513400 cpu gtx 1660 super 32gig ram and 2 keyboards a mouse and a mic
on a 500w psu
How do we solve this problem
You can't really. Just backup your data asap.
I can let my data go no issues, but I want my Hard drive back....what parts can we replace.....is it even possible?
Only in a clean room. So...not really possible at home.
@@UltimateDIY you have earned a subscriber my friend
Thank you!
This happens a Second ago to my laptop anyway to fix it
My laptop is an Samsung r510
@@eugengrundmann1532 copy your important data to s5omething else as soon as possible!
Its dead couldnt save it
Sorry to hear that.
Might get it replaced
how can i fix this?
I don't think you can without taking it to a specialised company. Hard drives are really fragile when you open them up.
@@UltimateDIY ok. Thankyou❤️
well too late for me
Sorry to hear that.
Mine clicks non-stop. Is this normal? Thank you for your reply
Almost impossible for me to guess without hearing it. But if it's clicking a few times per minute, most likely it has a problem.
If it's a WD black then it is most likely fine.
Can u show us the noise, not sugar coat it to 10 minutes
No 🙄
@@UltimateDIY damn 😞
Your pronunciation is the click of death.
You came here for english lessons?
Bruh. If the head is broken you see no scratch you can buy for hdd donor and try replacing the platters like professional data recovery company do. And i aint doing shit if you replaced it in disgusting room
If you are desperate, you can try it. But keep in mind you only see the surface of the top platter. Scratches could be on lower ones.
@@UltimateDIY Yep. if your hdd is single disc. with no scratch, Great news the data recovery have 98% success rate.
Love the video! SalvageData has been recovering data from various storage devices since 2003 and have over 96% success rates. When your hard drive needs repair or if you are experiencing problems with it, contact us through our service - we will help get the job done!
Nice 👍🏻
dude really kept a magnetic screwdriver next to the drive :|
I could have licked the platters and make no difference. That drive is dead!
@@UltimateDIY good point. xD
😄👍🏻
@@UltimateDIY in hindsight, i think i may have come across a bit mean. i think your video was truly educational. i have heard this exact same thing in an old hard drive of mine once, not knowing what inpending doom was waiting for me (i was still a teenager then). but now, knowing quite a bit more about computers and its components, this sound strikes fear into me XD like, i go full on panic mode XD thank you for showing us everything and explaining it so well 👍
No worries! I know what you say. Last week my 5TB external hdd made the same noise. I went into full panic mode. After that I realised it was connected to a usb hub that had too many things pluged in and was not providing enough power, so the hdd was turning on and off continuously. Or, at least I hope that is what it was, because it worked perfectly when I pluged it into the laptop directly.
He explained everything except how to fix the issue. What a waste of time.
Because it's not fixable! Do you even know what you are talking about?
The only way is to toss it into a bin. 😂