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Ty
Posted: 15 February 2005 07:42 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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My hard drive is making these odd whirring noises.  It isn’t like the typical clicks, which I assume are normal, but it sounds like something is rubbing against the disk.  Does anyone else hear this?  I could barely hear the TR for the first couple weeks I used it and now it’s getting louder.  Perhaps I’m just getting more used to a quieter machine-my old laptop was a beast.

UPDATE-I made a recording of the noise (with the stupidly placed internal microphone).  The creaking sound at the end is from my finger moving across the touchpad, I was putting too much pressure in it.  It sounds kind of like coffee brewing.

http://mail.friendsseminary.org/~06fujimura/harddrivenoise.wav

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Posted: 15 February 2005 11:10 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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beware it happened to me and then it craped out back up your data to be on the safe side…  I had to get my HD replaced

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Posted: 15 February 2005 11:51 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Just to indulge my curiosity, is it a Hitachi or Toshiba drive?

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Ty
Posted: 15 February 2005 12:19 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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[quote author=“IcHiRoRaBbIt”]beware it happened to me and then it craped out back up your data to be on the safe side…  I had to get my HD replaced

Wow.  I’ll certainly back up then.

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Posted: 16 February 2005 03:06 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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[quote author=“Drachen”]Just to indulge my curiosity, is it a Hitachi or Toshiba drive?

It’s a Toshiba 4004.

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Sony Vaio
Posted: 21 February 2005 06:27 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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[quote author=“Ty”][quote author=“IcHiRoRaBbIt”]beware it happened to me and then it craped out back up your data to be on the safe side…  I had to get my HD replaced

Wow.  I’ll certainly back up then.

hope u backed up ur data the…

similar noise happened to me tr recently, before it got f*cked up… gonna pick it up tomorrow from sony service (lousiest service ive ever experienced :( )

good luck mate :wink:

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Posted: 21 February 2005 09:38 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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is yoru computer running slower?

i hear the same sounds when my hd is running

that loud click is a power saving feature

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