2010-09-02, 07:09 PM
Hard drives by nature have a few clicks from the read/write head engaging and moving across the platters as they spin. It's when this gets loud like 1 click per 1~2 seconds thats audible even when you have a fan on or just booting up when the system is at it's noisiest.
If anything back up data you need only (pictures, documents, music, etc.). It's far easier and less painful to restore data to a new drive that has been partitioned with Windows reinstalled than it is to re-image from a disk that might be corrupt.
The only time you should re-image is if you are duplicating a PC from one to another.
If anything back up data you need only (pictures, documents, music, etc.). It's far easier and less painful to restore data to a new drive that has been partitioned with Windows reinstalled than it is to re-image from a disk that might be corrupt.
The only time you should re-image is if you are duplicating a PC from one to another.