tower makes grinding noise when opening a file

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bckofc

when I try to open a file in Word, excel or powerpoint,
the tower makes a grinding noise. Sometimes it opens the
file and sometimes it does not. When it does not open I
must restart the computer & try again?
 
Sounds like a defective hard drive!
Have you run scanned the drive for errors recently?

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[email protected] said:
when I try to open a file in Word, excel or powerpoint,
the tower makes a grinding noise. Sometimes it opens the
file and sometimes it does not. When it does not open I
must restart the computer & try again?
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Do you save files to the a: drive?
 
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