Back it up if you can. And get a new drive.

Please...don't argue.

On the up side, it might make a great instrument for someone's hard drive orchestra.

Sorry for your impending loss.

I have it backed up with 2 different programs. Will not be able to get a new drive until April. :/

What is there to argue about?

I'm not trying to speak for Doc but I believe that Doc is just saying no matter what the programs you checked it with say about your hard drive it's going. When who knows, tomorrow next year. If you can't get a new one till next April as you said just keep it backed up some how so if it does go you won't lose all the things you can't replace. When it decides to go it will just go. At least you are getting some kind of warning. I lost one without any warning. 

Good luck with it and hope it holds up for you till you can get another one.

I could put the other drive in the computer...

for checking hard drive health, I use both crystal disc info AND hard disc sentinel, while crystal disc info gives a quick good caution,bad indication and other info in plain language, it is limited to just those ratings, and hard disc sentinel gives a percentage of drive health.

harpo the NON-Subscriber

I'm in the midst of swapping out an old 1TB drive that's SMART detailed check gives a fitness of '0'.

I'm getting the odd CRC errors which prevent image backups....and on this drive is all the 'stuff' I use [not the OS]...but work/skinning/music/etc ... so it's imperative I get off this drive asap.

I'll swap out to a 2TB that's still in its wrapper...and use CDCheck to verify there are no unreadable files due to CRC.

Once I know True Image can do an image of the new drive I'll feel a little safer.

Incidentally....first thing that alerted me to the problem was Syncback ...which spits out an error log if it can't backup a file....

I used to have Maxtors of that era. They all failed, and all soon after making that noise you describe.

It's a hint that you don't always follow advice you've been given

This is what happened to me...bet its linear read speed was cocked.

Acronis can't clone a dying disk...good luck with the CDCheck software...

Nope....'cloning' it via straight file swapping to an external docked 2TB ....at snail-pace...USB2.

6 hours down....only 8 to go.

There's a LOT of files to copy....

A lot depends on what the problem is with the original disk...in my case, well...grrrr should suffice.

Yeap, once the noise starts, ya had better get another drive.  I've lost a handful. 

Well I sort off solved the issue. I am using my backup drive for my main drive. My backup drive is a 650 GB laptop drive. All I did was create a new partition and used that to install Windows. Now I have to worry about backing up my data. I can store my documents and pictures on the cloud (yeah, yeah, I know...). I am just worried about where to put my 30 GB worth of music.

Put your music [by copy] onto the 650gig drive...so if/when the other one dies you haven't lost the music too...