Hard Drive Issue?

[Thermopylae_480]

I have a Seagate Baracuada 80GB 7200 rpm SATA 150 hardrive with 8MB Cache. Whenever I go to install or uninstall something the progress bar begins and goes along nicely, but somewhere along the bar it stops for around a minute or more and makes a continuous noise pattern. They are normal hardrive noises, but they just repeat in a pattern and during this time no work is done or can be done. It hasn't done this in the past, but the hardrive is getting kind of full and only has 14GB left. The hard drive is less than a year old It shouldn't be dieing yet. I have run perfect disk to defrag it, and scan disk with no effect. I have run Norton, AVG, Spybot, and Adaware SE all with the latest updates several times since I first noticed the problem so its not a virus or spyware. I have a 1 GB of RAM and a sufficently large page file so I don't think its thrashing. Plus it only seams to do it when I'm installing or un-installing. Does anyone have any ideas?

[Steven B]

you overclocked?

[Thermopylae_480]

I have occasionally. but i have no need to do it continually. my system is usually at stock speeds

[W1zzard]

clicking noise? screeching?

[Thermopylae_480]

No. Its all normal noise, its just normal noise in a odd pattern and during the time its making the noise pattern no work can be accomplished. The pattern is kind of like this, if you can understan me typing it. Short Access, short access, pause, Longer access, pause, short access, short access, pause, longer access, longer access... etc. It keeps doing this for over a minute, never varying in pattern, each access is cleary defined never varying in length. Then it starts acting normally and continues from where it left off, like the last minute never happened.

[W1zzard]

format, reinstall :)

[Thermopylae_480]

Yeah. So time consuming. :( That was my next course of action. I guess I'll find out how it goes soon. Maybe its some sort of corrupted unistall\install instruction set.

[DR.Death]

but it will solve it mabby

[Thermopylae_480]

Yeah, I know it may not fix it. I'm just hoping, I don't want to have to live with a hard drive that does this.

[Solaris17]

DUDE...my playstation did that when it was trying to read a disk.......da da ...daaaaa da da....daaaaa da da daaaaaaa just like that.....probably has nothin to do with it but.

[Jo25]

when you Fdisk and rebuild, don't forget to create an image of your system ;)