External Harddrive Problems

I have succesfully used my external driver on my laptop for about 10 months, but i have been having problems with it the last couple of days...

When i plug it in, the "autoplay" thing starts scannin the folders really quickly... It used to take like 2 seconds, now it takes forever for it to go through... also the scannin always stops on the same folder (which in this case is "Matrix Trilogy" folder) so it will wait on that for a while and will eventually pass, and finish... Then i can open the harddrive and most of the time, as soon as i try to copy a file or open a folder, it will freeze...

Also sometimes it used to make alotta clickin noises....like it's being turned off and on...

Also, i see the "Delayed write failure" or something like that warning too..

Thnx for the help...

 

your hdd is failing. backup your data.
no doubt about it.
sorry mate.

 

Yah, it is failing. Test your hd. And you should make a backup as soon as it possible. I use special backup software, so i do recomend it to you, there is True Image. There are also other apps, but this one I used for a long time and know that I say about.

 

I don't need to back up anything, it's just 250 gigs of movies...

But i still wanna try to fix it, so any suggestions on what i should do?

 

Allright guys, i jsut did the diskcheck, and i think it has fixed the problem, because i just copied a file off of it, which i haven't been able to do in a couple of weeks...

On the other hand, i'm defraggin it right now, (i didn't have 15% of the empty space, only had 9%) anyways, i was wondering if u guys could suggest softwares, or stuff to do that will keep this harddrive runnin smooth...

 

the clicking sound usually denotes a mechanical failure of the hdd.
if its that or bad sectors, there isnt really much you can do.
usually drives come with a 3 year manafactures warranty so id check that out