Greetings - my hard drive began getting itself stuck into a loop of repeated drive noise (normal drive noise, but a repeated pattern during which the computer locks up or slows almost to a stop). I have never, in 20 years of computer use, heard drive noise that comes in patterns like that and it seems like an impending drive death to me (it just seems instinctual that patterned drive noise instead of random equals hardward problem - if I am wrong, please tell me!). My computer warranty holders say otherwise, and are saying that there is a virus. I am not letting them charge me to clean the drive - is there anything I can download from home that will clean the drive just in case it is virus related? If not, I guess I will have to wait for the drive to fail completely - about 5 weeks left on the warranty!
I did have McAfee running, but a full scan of the computer stops short of completion. Thanks for your help in advance...
2007-12-13
02:23:01
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baroquejen
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