2006-10-23 19:32:57 · 8 answers · asked by Great Man 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
there is a fan inside your hard drive to stop it from over heating, that's what's making the noise. It doesn't take much for someone to service it may just need a bit of lubricant
That's funny....my pc must be very unusual. I actually watched someone take my hard drive apart and fix it this way ????
2006-10-23 19:39:43 · answer #1 · answered by Nicky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you have a hard drive that's about to head into the big scrapheap in the sky.
That answer about the virus was just kinda dumb. All of the seektrack viruses were eliminated in the early 1990's and unless you are 1) running without a virus program (which would be just suicidally insane) or, 2) have a copy of McAffee from 1992 that has never been updated, the chance of you picking up a seektrack virus are slightly less than Zero.
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2006-10-23 21:10:53 · answer #2 · answered by MegaNerd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the sound is is your head looking for tracks on the disk. ALL hard drives do this, but some are a bit louder than others. There isn't anything wrong with it.
As far as the lubricant suggestion, local dealers CANNOT service hard drives, and they use what are called permanently lubricated bearings. There are no fans in hard drives as air moving through them woud destroy the heads and platters. A particle as large as a particle of smoke, if allowed inside the drive would destroy it. These devices are assembled in ultra-clean environments and must never be opened outside one.
Modern hard drives are designed to last in the tens of years operating continuously. Unless you drop, strike, or otherwise abuse your computer, the hard drive is unlikely to fail.
2006-10-23 19:52:50 · answer #3 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There may be many reasons for this problem. I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems. Some hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful
2006-10-23 22:55:23 · answer #4 · answered by blsruthi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your hard drive is dying. Back up the data before it completly goes.
Stop using your computer and buy a new hard drive. Then hook up the second hard drive and copy everything over to your new hard drive.
2006-10-23 19:36:47 · answer #5 · answered by Balk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats your hard drive lets say Drawing. mine makes clunky cliky scatchy sounds its just the machine thinking so its okay.
so the computer tech tells me?
2006-10-23 19:35:51 · answer #6 · answered by GOOCH 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get as much data as you can off and get rid of it..
2006-10-23 19:34:32 · answer #7 · answered by pro_steering_wheel_holder 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you may have a virus.
2006-10-23 19:35:35 · answer #8 · answered by Eddie G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋