Guest milkman2283 Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 Whenever I do a disk cleanup, a get a loud whirring sound from my hard drive (I think), and it sound like when I'm burning a CD. It also does it from time to time at other times. Is this anything to be concerned about? -- milkman
Guest Detlev Dreyer Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 Re: Sounds from hard drive "milkman2283" <milkman2283@yahoo.com> wrote: > Whenever I do a disk cleanup, a get a loud whirring sound from my hard > drive (I think), and it sound like when I'm burning a CD. It also does it > from time to time at other times. Is this anything to be concerned about? Yes. Backup all important data ASAP. -- d-d
Guest AW Barton Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 Re: Sounds from hard drive "Detlev Dreyer" <detdreyer@flashmail.com> wrote in message news:0163141187aea72155a7382a7da74ff8@d-d.mvps.org... > "milkman2283" <milkman2283@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Whenever I do a disk cleanup, a get a loud whirring sound from my hard >> drive (I think), and it sound like when I'm burning a CD. It also does it >> from time to time at other times. Is this anything to be concerned about? > > Yes. Backup all important data ASAP. > > -- > d-d He means the hard drive is in all probability on its last legs, it's going to join the great computer parts store in the sky.
Guest Detlev Dreyer Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 Re: Sounds from hard drive "AW Barton" <me@privacy.net> wrote: >> Yes. Backup all important data ASAP. > > He means the hard drive is in all probability on its last legs, it's > going to join the great computer parts store in the sky. Correct. ;) -- d-d
Guest Rock Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Re: Sounds from hard drive "milkman2283" wrote > Whenever I do a disk cleanup, a get a loud whirring sound from my hard > drive > (I think), and it sound like when I'm burning a CD. It also does it from > time > to time at other times. Is this anything to be concerned about? Data loss can occur at any time, from a variety of causes including hardware failure, such as your possibly failing hard drive, software problems, malware, etc., and is a matter of when not if. So to protect against data loss, always have a full and complete backup of all important data. I recommend a drive imaging program, Acronis True Image, to image the system to an external hard drive. This allows for individual file recovery or recovery of the complete system to a bare clean drive in case of drive failure. This is a relatively low cost backup and recovery solution. After a first full image, subsequent images can be differential or incremental. Images can be done on a drive or partition basis, and recovery can be on a drive, partition, folder or file basis. It also does file backup and disk cloning. Using the tools in Acronis it can be scheduled to image on a nightly basis. For maximum protection use two different external drives alternating between them on a weekly basis; one can be stored off site. To check the health of the drive download a drive diagnostic utility from the drive manufacturer's web site. This will create a bootable floppy or CD. Boot from that and run the diagnostics. It may or may not indicate a problem with the drive, but the fact that it shows good doesn't mean it might not fail in the near future. -- Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
Guest Lil' Dave Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Re: Sounds from hard drive "milkman2283" <milkman2283@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:82319C9C-56EB-4E85-A86F-06025EF6C1D5@microsoft.com... > Whenever I do a disk cleanup, a get a loud whirring sound from my hard > drive > (I think), and it sound like when I'm burning a CD. It also does it from > time > to time at other times. Is this anything to be concerned about? > -- > milkman By all means, have a backup that is recoverable. Whether you suspect a potential problem or not. Does your PC's bios have s.m.a.r.t., and is it enabled? I have an old Seagate ultrascsi drive 4GB that's been noisy since it was new. I bought it new. I used for awhile as the location for the XP swapfile for sometime. Always knew when XP was messin' with the swapfile. Some older ide Western Digitals and Maxtors were noisy at first use time by my own experiences, and lasted a long time that way. Point is, some hard drives may be naturally noisy. If the noise has gradually increased, you probably have a potential problem. Dave
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