New Hard Drive

It does that anyway, but still works - which is good enough for them

I double checked over the weekend (because the drive has been replaced once before due to severe excessive noise). The original drive was an IBM, this one's a Samsung (and the b***ards cut me short - I bought a PC with a 6.4Gb drive (4yrs ago) and they replaced it with a 5.8Gb once!).

Think I'll go down the Seagate route.

The moral of the story is....never buy an ex-display PC, and preferably never buy it from PC World

 

Good lad.

FYI - ANY drive that has added 'noise' is probably on the route to failing. If you get repeated 'clicks', its likely that the head cant read the servo track properly and is retrying.

If you really dont want a drive to (ahem) work - try cutting a few tracks on the pcba (exposed circuit board) - but be descreet......and one Golden rule -->> never ever do that with a Seagate drive.