TH2002
Experienced Member
Vintage hard drives failing is obviously nothing strange or unusual at all, but what about one that sometimes makes the dreaded "click of death" and other times doesn't?
It's the original HDD in my beloved Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDT and I haven't seen anything like this. I take note that sometimes when I hit the power button the drive clicks and the system doesn't boot. One would assume the drive is just dead but when I remove it from the machine and hook it up to my IDE-USB adapter, it starts working normally again.
Is this just a drive that one would refer to as "on the verge of failure"? Aside from the occasional clicking and failure to boot, there are no other issues. Not even a single bad sector so I have to admit I'm perplexed.
Still should probably image ALL of my drives though, and I know this has probably been asked a million times, but what program(s) have you generally had good luck with for creating image backups of similar old hard drives?
It's the original HDD in my beloved Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDT and I haven't seen anything like this. I take note that sometimes when I hit the power button the drive clicks and the system doesn't boot. One would assume the drive is just dead but when I remove it from the machine and hook it up to my IDE-USB adapter, it starts working normally again.
Is this just a drive that one would refer to as "on the verge of failure"? Aside from the occasional clicking and failure to boot, there are no other issues. Not even a single bad sector so I have to admit I'm perplexed.
Still should probably image ALL of my drives though, and I know this has probably been asked a million times, but what program(s) have you generally had good luck with for creating image backups of similar old hard drives?