strange noises! help!

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when i start my machine up sometimes it starts up rel slow. then makes noises as though its working to hard and wont do any thing. even shutdown. So i have to unplug it. Other times it starts up fine

Any help would be gratefully recieved.
 
Honestly sounds like a hard drive problem
Xp usually only beeps and whistles.

What you hear like " its working tol hard" may be error recovery
processing.

You might try chkdsk and see what you get.

If you don't have backups, now is a good time to take some before it
dies.

New disks are cheap.
 
thanks for the info.

where can i find disk chk and what am i looking for?


----- Hemlock tree wrote: -----

Honestly sounds like a hard drive problem
Xp usually only beeps and whistles.

What you hear like " its working tol hard" may be error recovery
processing.

You might try chkdsk and see what you get.

If you don't have backups, now is a good time to take some before it
dies.

New disks are cheap.
 
It is part of xp
start run type chkdsk hit enter

I caught my problem early.
I bought a second disk, bought Ghost, cloned the first disk and
switched, a week later the old drive crashed.

Hemlock
 
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