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https://bbs.archlinux.org – solstice wrote:it began to make a few click noise when I was copying data to/from it.I can't believe it. It's a 2 week old harddrive. a western digital suposed to be good quality.Have I broken it or what ?I have made a badblocks scan before trying to use it and found no problem. I'll try again but I fear loosing data any moment now :-(((Western Digital is great but every manufacturer ships out defective drives now and again. Run a hard test with Sea Tools or the WD equivalent and if anything comes up, call them immediately. Your drive is still under warranty if it's brand n (HowTos)

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