explain the implication of the churning sound one hears from a hard drive whenever it's retrieving data?

Answer 1

do an online backup with www.backituptoday.com

Answer 2

It generally happens with old hard drives or with ones which are not properlly screwed up with the cabinet. As you know the drive rotates at a very high speed and when the read & right head is moving & accessing data from the disc ( platters )

Answer 3

Back it up quickly. This could be a problem with the motor and/or the read/write heads. Retrieving data from a crashed HDD is prohibitively expensive and way more expensive than a new one.

Answer 4

A little noise is normal, especially for an older computer. If it's excessive, try defragging the drive.

And ALWAYS back up your data. Even with a new system.

Answer 5

depends what kinda noise it is.... if its a KERCHUNK noise every so often you will eventually need a HDD. If its just clickclickclick thats the heads clacking on their little stopper thing. My laptop sounds like a kettle when its using the hdd, but there's nothing wrong. Strange electronic devices!

Answer 6

I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.
Some RAM/ hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful

Answer 7

What do you mean by implication? You can't imply something from the sound of a hard drive.

Answer 8

You might just have a noisy fan that gets itself a bit over excited when you're asking your box to do a bit of work. I had that problem once.

Answer 9

1 its going bad
2needs defrag
3 cheap hdd

Answer 10

it's most probably on its way to the great computer junkyard in the sky... back it up and change it!!!