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Old 09-29-2007, 12:13 PM   #1
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Heyas,

The last two days I've heard some random clicking or slight beeping sound from the hard drive that houses my CoX program, I did a system check on it and it checked out fine. It only happens when I'm trying to run the game, it'll freeze and crash on its on after a few minutes of play..

I read about the issues with CoX and comcast subscribers, but my issue seems slight different, since I can login into the client just fine.

Any ideas?

P.S - Yes the hard drive itself works fine as long as I'm not running CoX. (And I have 3 hard drives)
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Old 09-29-2007, 12:18 PM   #2
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You have bad sectors on your hard drive and part of your game files reside there. Defrag your hard drive, that will usually move files off bad sectors.
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Old 09-29-2007, 12:54 PM   #3
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I analyzed my hard drive and it said it didn't need defraging.

But I'll go with what you say.
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hd beginning to go bye bye. do the defrag. if that doesnt work uninstlal coh - defrag then reinstall.
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Migrate your data off that drive NOW. Clicking means imminent failure and you don't want to lose 3+ years of screenshots

Ask me how I know. I have six dead drives in the desk behind me.
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Old 09-29-2007, 03:34 PM   #6
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Migrate your data off that drive NOW. Clicking means imminent failure and you don't want to lose 3+ years of screenshots

Ask me how I know. I have six dead drives in the desk behind me.
lol, it's actually 1 year worth I believe, I've been through 3 myself. 2 broke in the same day.

Thanks for the input guys, I'll work on it when I get home in the next 20 mins.
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hd beginning to go bye bye. do the defrag. if that doesnt work uninstlal coh - defrag then reinstall.
Yeah I'm thinking it might be worthwhile to just save your screenshots now, uninstall the game, defrag then reinstall.

And shop for a new HD, it's on the way out.
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It's not the one I gave you is it?
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It's the last one I brought, the 80 gig one.
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Clicking and odd whirring can mean the hard drive is about to die. You should back up all essential files as soon as possible. If you have the money, get an external hard drive.
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