Each time that I want to open a picture document from my pics, i hear this really disturbing noise in my hard drive. It grates and grinds for a few seconds, then stops once the pic has opened.
2006-07-15 19:45:39 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Sounds like your hard drive is starting to die! What you can immediately try to confirm that your drive may be failing is to go into "My Computer"...then, right click you C: drive, once you've done that go under the "Tools" tab..And once you've done that click on "error checking". Check off both options and then press start. More then likely your PC will ask you to reboot..Do it! What you want to look for once the Disk check begins (it will begin as soon as you restart your PC.), what you want to look out for are like like "Bad Sectors"..Pretty much any Bad Sector on your drive is not good. This just means that there is a part of your drive that has exactly that.. A Bad Sector! Thus the reason you get noises when you try opening up your pictures....THAT part of the drive is bad and its only going to get worse! @ that point I would suggest backing up your Hard Drive if you have anything important and start looking into a new drive....Something nice and fat! (100 gigs or more for sure!)
2006-07-15 20:04:30 · answer #1 · answered by MDilla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your computer hates you, just kidding.
Actually it sounds like a bad platter, or a bad bearing--probably the later. You should replace the drive. When a picture is embedded in a document it takes up a lot of space. There is the picture, the data to position it, and the text (and often they are not located together). So you get a lot of disk access. A disk drive should not make a lot of noise, if it does then you probably have a bad drive and could lose all the data on it. Hard Drive's are pretty cheap, and getting cheaper (or bigger) all the time. It is better to replace the drive than to lose the data.
2006-07-16 02:58:00 · answer #2 · answered by Dan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like the hard drive is failing.
2006-07-16 02:48:36 · answer #3 · answered by kg122673 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Replace the HDD.
2006-07-16 02:52:44 · answer #4 · answered by I tapu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you prolly have an old harddrive prolly. its gettin old and starting to wear out. back it up and get a new one. or a totally new computer. :)
2006-07-16 02:49:49 · answer #5 · answered by Joel E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's because it is a PC ! Try a Mac you'll never go back!
2006-07-16 02:47:45 · answer #6 · answered by cooltoque 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make backups while you still can
2006-07-16 02:47:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go defrag....
2006-07-16 02:48:15 · answer #8 · answered by n9flyboy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋