Troubles with reformatted HDD

Paperchase · 12-23-2006, 12:15 AM

A few hours ago I reformatted the two partitions of a 120GB Hard Drive that had turned to RAW format a couple of months ago. Then, I proceeded to uninstall large games from my C drive and reinstall them on my two new reformatted partitions.

Here's the problem, after a good defrag run with Diskeeper, I attempt to run the game, and then either my C drive or my two restored partitions make that 'TOCK!' sound, which leads to the total locking-up of my PC and ending up to restart, now I can't play any games at all!

Does this have to do with the fact that the reformatting may not have scrubbed the drive of everything? Or something else?

Paperchase · 12-23-2006, 08:23 PM

Bleh, forget about this, problem resolved through reformatting everything and reinstalling Windows.

=Sarc= · 12-25-2006, 02:41 PM

If it's making a sound that isn't normal, the harddrive might be due for retirement soon.

Lance Jensen · 12-26-2006, 08:24 PM

Could also be the disk controller, so be sure you keep backed up. If you get the same symptoms with a different hard disk, it's the controller.

12-23-2006, 12:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
Paperchase Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Island of Tonal Age: 16 Posts: 287	Troubles with reformatted HDD A few hours ago I reformatted the two partitions of a 120GB Hard Drive that had turned to RAW format a couple of months ago. Then, I proceeded to uninstall large games from my C drive and reinstall them on my two new reformatted partitions. Here's the problem, after a good defrag run with Diskeeper, I attempt to run the game, and then either my C drive or my two restored partitions make that 'TOCK!' sound, which leads to the total locking-up of my PC and ending up to restart, now I can't play any games at all! Does this have to do with the fact that the reformatting may not have scrubbed the drive of everything? Or something else? __________________ \|TG-Irr\|Paperchase

12-23-2006, 08:23 PM	#2 (permalink)
Paperchase Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Island of Tonal Age: 16 Posts: 287	Re: Troubles with reformatted HDD Bleh, forget about this, problem resolved through reformatting everything and reinstalling Windows. __________________ \|TG-Irr\|Paperchase

12-25-2006, 02:41 PM	#3 (permalink)
=Sarc= Join Date: May 2003 Location: Ottawa, Canada Posts: 4,494	Re: Troubles with reformatted HDD If it's making a sound that isn't normal, the harddrive might be due for retirement soon. __________________ JO Guides & Tutorials Team Element - It's who you game with.

12-26-2006, 08:24 PM	#4 (permalink)
Lance Jensen Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Los Angeles area Age: 55 Posts: 1	Re: Troubles with reformatted HDD Could also be the disk controller, so be sure you keep backed up. If you get the same symptoms with a different hard disk, it's the controller.

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