Noisy Hard Drive on Boot up only.

Larni

Larni

Larni

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Hi all, my HD (which is about 2 yrs old) has started to make a zrrrrr-ing noise when I boot up.

The boot goes flawlessly (and seems quicker but could be my imagination) and the zrrrr-ing stops when I get to desk stop and I never hear it again or have any performance problems.

Except when I install games: the install takes ages.

I suspect my HD is dieing; does this sound the case? The PC potters away quite happilly at any other time, just on boot up does it get the zrrrrs.

Any ideas what it is?

P4, 3 GHz
XP
1 G Ram
6800 XT Card.

Thanks in advance.
 
Unfortunately no. It sounds like faulty DVD drive but I checked the PCs DVD drive and its not spining when I hear it.

Sorry I can't be any more specific.
 
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I had a WD 80GB drive die earlier this year, and this is what it sounded like - a faulty DVD. It sounded like a sort of click then a whirring noise.

If I were you, I'd be backing up any data on the drive just in case!!
 
It's more a constant zrrr-ing, like the rotation of a tiny propeller. My fan works a ok though. It's not the click-tsst of a dvd drive not reading a disk, more a constant zrrrrr-ing that cuts out just before my desk top pops up in the boot sequence.

Just today it went away for two boots after I accidently kicked the tower. Could it be that the screwws are coming loose somwhere?
 
My 4 Htachi drives do this when you turn the computer on, sounds like horrible grinding at stuff...

They've been doing it for about a year though so...

I guess its normal (only during bootup and shutdown, never had any loss of data, and its a 4 x raid0 jobby so i doubt anythings wrong)

...not to say there isn't anything wrong with yours, just as long as you haven't got anything critical on there, i wouldn't worry, hard drives are cheap as chips these days.
 
I know what you mean as my PC is VERY loud when it boots up, it's grinding away like hell and causing massive reverberations, you can easily hear it from a couple of rooms away.

The realworld write speed on one of my drives is very poor for some reason but it's been like this for a while.
 
Thanks for the info, I think I will have to chance it for a month or two (till I get my raise!). My PC is a games machine anyway so no real stuff will get lost if it dies.

One last question though: Do new HD caome with an operating system on them?
 
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