high pitched noise of HD

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David Cleland

Hi all,

I have had a HP Pavilion machine for 4 months now but over the last few days
the HDD has started to make an annoying high pitched noise. It is not very
loud but loud enough to annoy. It reminds me of the noise a fridge makes :(

I have contacted them and have to call back tomorrow - is this a bad sign ?
anyone come across it before ?

David
 
David said:
Hi all,

I have had a HP Pavilion machine for 4 months now but over the last few days
the HDD has started to make an annoying high pitched noise. It is not very
loud but loud enough to annoy. It reminds me of the noise a fridge makes :(

I have contacted them and have to call back tomorrow - is this a bad sign ?
anyone come across it before ?

David
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Tell them a bearing in the drive is starting to go and you want it
replaced before you lose all of your data and the drive crashes in the
middle of an important job :-)

HTH,

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Hi all,

I have had a HP Pavilion machine for 4 months now but over the last few days
the HDD has started to make an annoying high pitched noise. It is not very
loud but loud enough to annoy. It reminds me of the noise a fridge makes :(

I have contacted them and have to call back tomorrow - is this a bad sign ?
anyone come across it before ?

David
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Hard drive noises are not a good sign. Be prepared to replace it.

Many years ago I had an Iomega unit (Bernoulli box) that emitted an
annoying high-pitched noise. It gave me a headache until I put the
thing on the floor. After some reasearch I learned that 1% of the
population is sensitive to high-pitched noise and I'm one of those
"lucky" ones.
:-(
 
population is sensitive to high-pitched noise and I'm one of those
"lucky" ones.
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high pitched noice is annoying, and what is worrying is the fact that it has
only developed over the last few days. Although I don't trust people with my
data, I do not like the idea of swapping the old drive for a new one when I
have lots of work files, accounts etc - any advice - can I demand I keep the
old drive ?

David
 
high pitched noice is annoying, and what is worrying is the fact that it has
only developed over the last few days. Although I don't trust people with my
data, I do not like the idea of swapping the old drive for a new one when I
have lots of work files, accounts etc - any advice - can I demand I keep the
old drive ?

David
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"Demanding" may be a little unreasonable, but you may have a few days
to operate both drives. In any event, it's time for a backup whether
you give up the old drive or not. If you have to send it back, use a
scubber utility such as "Wipe Info" in Norton Utilities that will
write and overwrite the entire drive several times. If you don't have
NU, there are a few freebies you can download that will do the same.
The real PITA will be installing the O/S and applications all over
again. Every drive will eventually fail, sometimes they go out like a
light bulb and other times make strange sick noises that death is
near.
 
Usually good companies will send you a drive first and have you send the old
one after your finished backing everything up. Or give you a reasonable
amount of time to send the old one back. I would wait to get the new drive
and use Norton Ghost to copy the dying drive. I used this technique with my
brothers PC which was a Gateway and everything went without a hitch. After I
formatted the old drive he sent the old one back to Gateway. If HP doesn't
do this sort of thing you can go straight to the manufacturer of the drive
and go that route as well, I did this once with Fujitsu and they sent me a
new one after I gave my credit card info. This is just in case you don't
send the old one back so they'll charge you, but of course if you do they
wont.
 
Wipe the drive using a program that overwrites the data with 1's and 0's
(there are plenty available as freeware, and most drive manufacturers
have them available on their websites)
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Thanks all who replied - I contacted HP who ever very good about the whole
thing - and wanted to collect my pc today for 3-4 days to repair the
problem.

me being me, can not even be without my pc for that lenght of time - not
only that I do not like my drive being poked about with - accounts, work
files, and archives of the such !

will probably end up buying a new drive - install it and have myself up and
running again in 2-3 hours :)

thanks again,

David
 
BTW, David, although the hard drive may indeed be "going", it isn't
necessarily going fast! I've had drives go noisy, in one case, exremely so,
that never "died", generally I replaced them due to noise, and to be on the
safe side, but a noisy drive can very well have years of operation still
ahead.
 
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