Cycle Pilot
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I'm new to the forums. I've got a weird situation. I have a laptop with a Fujitsu 250GB HDD which is about two years old. I back up on a regular basis. The other day, I had the computer on my desk closed and in sleep mode. I went to open it up and it slipped out of my hands and dropped hard about 4 inches right where the HDD is located. The drive immediately started making pretty loud clicking noises and the computer wouldn't come out of sleep mode. I shut it off and waited a minute. When I tried to power it up again, the drive was making the same clicking noises and I got a message saying the computer did not recognize the drive. I tried starting the computer up several times over 30 minutes, but it kept clicking and not recognizing the drive. Ok... easy answer, right? Buy a new drive. Well, four days later, I tried booting up the computer one more time and the computer works fine! No noise and the drive is accessing data just fine. I even ran a SeaTools test on the drive and it passed! I've never had a drive do this before. Usually, they just fail and that's the end. Should I continue using this thing until it dies or should I just go out and buy a new drive?
