I just bought this HP with Vista a Month ago, and a few days ago, the harddrive started to make a weird sound, it sounds like a bike rev-vvv-ving; no clicking sounds though. It is smart enabled and does pass the smart test. I am sure it is the HD because I opened it to make sure where the sound is coming from. Could it possibly be failing already? It does it randomly, not when I get busy doing something. I guess the sound comes from it increasing rotation speed, but it can't be normal!
2007-03-10 10:47:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Actually, by "opened it" I meant take the case off the tower. I know I can't open the harddrive itself without killing it!
2007-03-18 05:06:55 · update #1
You can check the settings in the power profile...you may have your hard drive set to shut down after a certain amount of time. The incident sounds to me as if your hard drive has turned off to conserve power and reduce heat and the noise you hear is the drive spinning back up to speed to perform a function...this would explain why you do not hear it when you are busy on the computer for the drive will already be at speed.
2007-03-18 11:46:26 · answer #1 · answered by wwjd77488 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-18 01:45:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the computer is new, I wouldn't worry about it. It's probably just reading or writing (possibly to the event log). Go into My Computer, and right click your hard drive. If the format is NTFS, then get used to the humming: NTFS formatted drives do that normally. I know because two of my drives, one internal, one external, are like that. If it's FAT32, I don't know what to tell you. I probably wouldn't worry about it since it's a new computer.
2007-03-10 11:40:56 · answer #3 · answered by Big Q 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
boot into your bios and disable the hard drive performance boost....then it wont spin at max all the time. to be honest that setting really doesnt make a difference in performance all it does is keep your disk spinning at max even when your system is idling
2007-03-15 04:08:02 · answer #4 · answered by david_m_grogan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uh fyi if you opened your hard drive, like opened opened it then yo whole system is trash cause it wont work no more
2007-03-18 03:02:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋