I've only recently started having this problem. Basically on random occasions the hard drive will wind down (the power is no longer flowing through it) and then it will instantly wind back up (the power is flowing through now.)
It hasn't caused any damage to my data as of yet but since it's my storage drive, I put all of my games on it. The occasion is purely random, sometimes it will do this 10 times over. When I'm playing a game (the game data is on this drive) the game will freeze for a second, then will come back into play. Sometimes if the drive jut keeps turning on and off the game will just sit there... and eventually restart my computer.
I have 2 hard drives, I've checked the fitness of both of them, they're still perfect. The one with the problems is a Hitachi 80GB drive and I've had it for maybe 2 months now. My system files HD (the first one without the problems) I've had for over a year now and is a Western Digital 30GB.
It hasn't caused any damage to my data as of yet but since it's my storage drive, I put all of my games on it. The occasion is purely random, sometimes it will do this 10 times over. When I'm playing a game (the game data is on this drive) the game will freeze for a second, then will come back into play. Sometimes if the drive jut keeps turning on and off the game will just sit there... and eventually restart my computer.
I have 2 hard drives, I've checked the fitness of both of them, they're still perfect. The one with the problems is a Hitachi 80GB drive and I've had it for maybe 2 months now. My system files HD (the first one without the problems) I've had for over a year now and is a Western Digital 30GB.