Increasingly loud rattle from hard drive? reasons/solutions?? help

[Theodore Baldwin Boothe III]

I have noticed over the last 2 months, my hard drive chatters/rattles
more and more and is getting louder by the week. It has also slowed
down in loading/saving files to a great degree. The drive is a western
digital 80 gig 7200rpm 8mb cache drive which was purchased in Dec of
2003.

Any ideas or suggestions/fixes for this issue, or am I just going to
have to buy a new hard drive??

thanks a lot,

 

[Yeff]

Any ideas or suggestions/fixes for this issue, or am I just going to
have to buy a new hard drive??

Go to the website of your drive manufacturer and download their
diagnostic program.

 

[old jon]

I have noticed over the last 2 months, my hard drive chatters/rattles
more and more and is getting louder by the week. It has also slowed
down in loading/saving files to a great degree. The drive is a western
digital 80 gig 7200rpm 8mb cache drive which was purchased in Dec of
2003.

Any ideas or suggestions/fixes for this issue, or am I just going to
have to buy a new hard drive??

thanks a lot,

Back up anything you want to keep NOW.
If the drive is making as much noise as you infer. It Is Knackered !.
It`s gonna let you down Soon. It will fail to start one day, or even
die while your using it.
Save your stuff Now. And relace it with a new one.

 

[DaveW]

You cannot repair a harddrive (unless you want to send it back to the
manufacturer and pay them to take it apart.) Time to buy a new harddrive.

 

[Mike Redrobe]

"Theodore Baldwin Boothe III" wrote

You cannot repair a harddrive (unless you want to send it back to the
manufacturer and pay them to take it apart.) Time to buy a new
harddrive.

Backup your drive, but don't bin it:

You might be able to get a new one from WD for the price of sending
it back to them if it's still under warranty:
http://support.wdc.com/warranty/