Noisy Computer Hard Drive on Dell Dimension E520?

Question

I brought my new £500 Dell Dimension E520 last month. Over the last week the hard drive has been really loud and been grunting and making a very loud wiring noise. What could be wrong and if i phone dell what will they do ??

Answer 1

I would call DELL. I believe that your hard drive will soon be DEAD. Make sure that you have backups of your important data.

Dell will probably send you a new drive.

Good luck and Happy Computing!

Answer 2

You sir have been a victim of Dell's crappy item inspection, they gave you a new computer with a defective hard drive. STOP what your doing on your computer IMMEDIATLY. Get your Flash drives/Cd Burner out now, back up any software, date you need. Call dell and have this thing shipped back, and while your at it tell them you refuse to pay for shipping, they will pick up the tab, considering they sold you a faulty computer.

PS: Be ready for dell's horrible excuse for tech support. I reccomend having ALL the information they sent to you with your computer: Customer ID#, Serial#'s, etc.

Answer 3

Have had a dell for a few years.Mine has always grunted and made noise.It is just the way there made i guess.Sometimes quite as a mouse others like a train.Runs great other than that.

Answer 4

IMMEDIATELY save any data on a CD/DVD or Thumb Drive then call Dell for a new disk.

Answer 5

The first thing you should do is back up all you important data before it falls over, then notify Dell of your problem.

Answer 6

Back up your important files. It might suddenly crash. Claim for warranty. Hard drives have long warranty. It is usually one year from the local distributor and up to 5 years from the manufacturer.

Answer 7

ship it back for a new hard drive. It ought to still be coverd on the units warrentee