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8th February 2007, 12:04
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Hard Drive noise
Thought I'd make my first topic in this section
My hard drive makes a terrible noise particularly when downloading porn which is normally late and night and wakes my parents up!!!
it's like a creaking, groaning noise. I heard you can put them in the freezer, does it actually work?
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8th February 2007, 12:09
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Probably means it's on the way out, i would buy i new one and back it up asap.
Or download a SMART reader, http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
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8th February 2007, 12:10
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In the freezer!?
Iv been told this drive means your drive is considering moving onwards & upwards. One of mine made a horrible noise for a while too but it stopped after about 6 months, Still works today!
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8th February 2007, 12:14
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it's all backed up on my external but I'm more worried about the noise
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8th February 2007, 12:15
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LOL!!!
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8th February 2007, 12:16
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I think eventually what cured mine was a long format. Make sure everything is backed up & format the drive (make sure you dont do a 'quick format') the format should take an hour or more then put a clean partition on & put all your stuff back on & see if its any better.
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8th February 2007, 12:17
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It could be nothing, just excessive swapping if you have a low amount of system memory. With that said lots of noise does usually indicate a drive about to fail. If you have everything backed up it might be a good idea to format it to see if it makes it through and basically start the drive from scratch. I've saved a few that way. If it is on it's last legs though, it may fail halfway through.
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8th February 2007, 12:18
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ok, it was formatted about a month ago though. Just done a recent backup so I think I'll just leave it and see how it gets on
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8th February 2007, 12:24
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freezer can help for some problems if the hard disk doesn't spin or is completely dead!!
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8th February 2007, 12:30
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You might need to replace the fan that cools the unit.
I had something simular on my work PC, so I called Desktop support... they came and replaced the fan and it's no longer noisey, plus it works faster now!
Chris
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8th February 2007, 15:30
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more than likely on its way out dude! does it like spool up... like... constant spining up sound ?
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8th February 2007, 15:44
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funny that, I thought mine was out but it turned out it was the graphics card fan.
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11th February 2007, 17:56
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its on its way out bud the motor arm is the noise you hear clicking it does that to give you a warning kinda thing. first thing you will find your PC will start to take ages to load up and it will take ages to load up simple applications like WMP.
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12th February 2007, 01:57
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Quote:
Originally Posted by adsayer
funny that, I thought mine was out but it turned out it was the graphics card fan.
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my graphics card fan has just died.
fuck.
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