HD noise

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When I wrote to disk, for about ten days it sounds like something is
trying to rotate but is too tight. Something between a squeak and a grind.

Otherwise it's fine. (AOpen AMD64)

After my 1985 10MB Xebec Owl was about two years old it made like a
metalic scratching noise, almost like high pitch whistle. The PC maker
said the solder joints holding the casing together were lose. I asked
if my machine was in danger, he replied "Only if it causes you to throw
it across the room"

Point is, how do I know if this is dangerous?

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When I wrote to disk, for about ten days it sounds like something is
trying to rotate but is too tight. Something between a squeak and a grind.

Otherwise it's fine. (AOpen AMD64)

After my 1985 10MB Xebec Owl was about two years old it made like a
metalic scratching noise, almost like high pitch whistle. The PC maker
said the solder joints holding the casing together were lose. I asked
if my machine was in danger, he replied "Only if it causes you to throw
it across the room"

Point is, how do I know if this is dangerous?

- = -
Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm
---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Remorse begets zeal] [Windows is for
Bimbos]
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There are lots of apps available that will report on drive health. I use
SeaTools (http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools).
SpinRite (available from www.grc.com (at a cost)) has also been of great use
to me in the past.

Having said that I would be inclined to assume it *is* a serious problem
regardless of what these utilities report and make a backup of all important
files immediately.

Note that SpinRite works the drive pretty hard so backing up before running
it is probably a good idea!

Ed Metcalfe.
 
[email protected] said:
When I wrote to disk, for about ten days it sounds like something is
trying to rotate but is too tight. Something between a squeak and a grind.
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Depends if it's the hard disk, or perhaps less seriously, a fan or CD/DVD
drive. If it is the HD then it should be taken seriously as it may signal
impending failure.
After my 1985 10MB Xebec Owl was about two years old it made like a
metalic scratching noise, almost like high pitch whistle. The PC maker
said the solder joints holding the casing together were lose.
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That guy was flannelling you.
 
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