Yardstick Posted October 31, 2019 Posted October 31, 2019 I have recently upgraded my gaming rig to Win 10, replacing most of the key components. However, I hung onto an old 750gb Samsung Spinright drive as the additional space is useful. In Win 7 this drive worked flawlessly but with Win 10 a curious issue has emerged. On boot the drive works fine, passes every HDD test and diagnostic I throw at it. However, once it goes into powersave mode, on wake-up it seems to get stuck in a cycle of clicking as if the heads are stuck trying to disengage from their parked position. The drive is then inaccessible and the clicking can only be fixed by a reboot. I’ve disabled APM for the drive using an HDD utility - but Windows seems to reset this after a re-boot. I’ve also tested it’s ability to spin down and spin backup again with the utility and it passes this test. All other diagnostics indicate the drive is healthy. I’ve backed up any useful data on the drive but the way the issue presents makes me think this is a software problem not hardware - any ideas?
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