re: Harddrive shuts off during large file reads Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 1:44 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by C K (6528 messages posted) Those tests can't detect everything. From experience, a drive that clicks off in this manor is having a catastrophic failure and at some point soon will not start back up. Many times it is due to heat failure in the electronics. Diagnostics doesn't detect that type of problem IME.. Image or back it up ASAP! Any pro recovery service will tell you the same thing. Clicking off when it should be running can also be causing head crashes and it won't take but a few to start doing damage to your data. On Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 9:47 am, Gernader8 wrote: >I found a dignostic tool online, and ran it. It had three different tests, Quick >Test, Full Test, and Burn in Test. I ran all three and the harddrive past all of >them. > Written in response to: re: Harddrive shuts off during large file reads (Gernader8: Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 9:47 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Harddrive shuts off during large file reads (Gernader8: Sat, Oct 22, 2005, 10:28 pm) re: Harddrive shuts off during large file reads (Ricer46: Sun, Oct 23, 2005, 1:11 am) re: Harddrive shuts off during large file reads (Gernader8: Sun, Oct 23, 2005, 9:47 am) re: Harddrive shuts off during large file reads (C K: Sun, Oct 23, 2005, 1:44 pm) re: Harddrive shuts off during large file reads (Gernader8: Sun, Oct 23, 2005, 8:19 pm) re: Harddrive shuts off during large file reads (C K: Tue, Oct 25, 2005, 11:44 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum