hard drive won't shut off

[Stephen]

usually there are diagnostic tools provided by the manufacturer of the
drive, i would investigate those.

and in a fit of paranoia make a backup of all data i care about.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Mike Bushroe <mbushroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On a similar note, my old desktop system, which has several hardrives of
> various sizes and ages, has int he last week or two started making on odd
> sound that I am guessing is the read/write head being pulled back as if to
> power down, then let back out again. It is clearly not affecting the drive I
> am running off of, but I do not know of any tool or system monitor that
> would help me isolate which drive is going. I must apologize in advance for
> having not yet even attempted to research this on the web. When Mike brought
> up the general topic, I decided to chime in and see if anyone remembers
> something that might be useful off the top of their heads. If not, I should
> be able to tell when it goes hard failure, and it is unlikely to take my
> main partition with it, so no big deal. Thanks again in advance for the
> help.
>
> Mike
>
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Stephen