hard drive making weird sounds..

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hello,

when the computer is on,it seems the hard drive is making
a "ZZZZ....ZZZZ......ZZZ..." sound constantly. is this a
sign it is about to crash? any help would be definitely
appreciated! thanks
 
Backup now. Buy a new drive and install it pretty soon.

Or it might be just snoring.


| hello,
|
| when the computer is on,it seems the hard drive is making
| a "ZZZZ....ZZZZ......ZZZ..." sound constantly. is this a
| sign it is about to crash? any help would be definitely
| appreciated! thanks
 
If what you are trying to describe is a "grinding" or "chattering"
noise, I would say that your harddrive is about to go belly up..
I would suggest you back up your data, and get a new harddrive
installed as soon as practible...

Modern harddrives may have some noises, but grinding and chattering
are just about universal signs of impending failure.

ymmv,
JM
 
A sure sign that there is an impending failure is if it fails to bootup cleanly: instead performing a chkdsk

It is a worthy precaution to buy something like Norton Ghost and a new hard drive: using Ghost do a 'Backup' of your entire hard drive [if you have any partitioning, then perform this for each one]. Make sure you have one partition more on the new HDD than you have on the old.

Make sure you partition the new HDD and that your backups are in the last partition

That way when your drive fails you can restore to the new HDD in the unused partition which will correspond to the C / D drive.
 
1) Without taking the cover off of the computer while
running it, and listening carefully, one would be hard
pressed to correctly identify the source of the noise.
Did you do this ?

2) The noise is probably coming from a fan that
is "struggling" a bit - power supply, CPU, video, case -
these parts fail 1st (usually) because they are
inexpensive parts and they are mechanical.

Good Luck !

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uh oh..yea a few times when i unplug one IDE cable and
power source from one hard drive to the other, my
computer would always perform a checkdisk and it would be
extremely slow too. guess i need a new drive...thanks
for the replies

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A sure sign that there is an impending failure is if it
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fails to bootup cleanly: instead performing a chkdsk.
It is a worthy precaution to buy something like Norton
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Ghost and a new hard drive: using Ghost do a 'Backup' of
your entire hard drive [if you have any partitioning,
then perform this for each one]. Make sure you have one
partition more on the new HDD than you have on the old.
Make sure you partition the new HDD and that your
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backups are in the last partition.
That way when your drive fails you can restore to the
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new HDD in the unused partition which will correspond
to the C / D drive.
 
in fact, after closer listening, it does seem like it's
coming from the heatsink fan? or somewhere in that area.
on the to of the tower, directly above the power supply,
you could feel the "zzzz...zzz...zzz..." vibration and it
lessens as you move away from it..so it's the fan?
 
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