Charlie Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 It's been doing this for a while now. It sounds like its coming from where the harddrive is. It doesn't always happen but when it does it's really noticeable. Its a small noise which I can't really describe. I wouldn't go as far as saying its a grinding noise but its like a small constant clicking. Any idea what this could be and how I could fix it?
Sanchez Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 Sounds like you may need to buy a new hard drive soon.
Raining_again Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 Hdd is likely stopping and starting. I dunno if its terminal, but it doesn't sound healthy >_< Backup your stuff just incase! This happened to me a while ago, but I had four hard drives and trying to access data from all 4 at once, and my hdd's are all still functioning fine. Does your pc crash/slow down when it happens?
Caris Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 If it's a ticking it's the head on your Hard Drive on it's way out. Back up ASAP.
RoadKill Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 Like everyone's said so far, back all your shit up just in case, if it doesn't fail, so what.. if it does, you'll be glad you backed up Buy an external HDD.
Charlie Posted January 31, 2008 Author Posted January 31, 2008 Thanks, hope it doesn't kick it any time in the next 2 months as I really need my laptop for uni and getting repaired will take ages... Thanks. *backs up*
RoadKill Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 Getting it repaired wouldn't be a complicated matter really, if it's a recent SATA drive, this is easy and requires purchasing nothing, simply unscrew the drive, slam it in your PC, and use an imaging program like Ghost to make a copy of the entire drive in an image file. When the drive fails.. get yourself a new laptop drive, restore the backup to the drive, slam it back in
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