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That is a bad sound.
My notebook hard drive made some bad sounding noises this weekend. It made some humming noises and took a while to boot up. It seems to be working fine now but I may have some problems updating this site if I have to upgrade my hard drive before it dies on me. I would not mind to upgrade to a larger hard drive and it sort of works so I hope that all is not lost. I need to transfer as much as I can over to my external USB 2 hard drive as soon as possible.
Update: Well it looks it is not as dead as it could be. My local Best Buy is out of stock for replacement notebook hard drives. I plan on being gentle on my notebook until I can find out about upgrading to a new hard drive. My PC is over a year old and I don't think it is still under warranty but I need to check.
Update :My notebook is in the shop and I should get it back tonight. I was able to boot it up in the store yesterday but I did have some problems getting it to boot up before I went to the shop. I am getting a 80 gig drive installed and hopefully they will be able to use Ghost to copy over all the data from my old drive and expand the partition.
I look forward to filling up the 40 new gigs with MP3s and stuff
Update: No Computer for me tonight. I will update this tomorrow night because I do not have a computer right now. Actually I might stop by the Public library tonight and write something there but I am more likely to just go and play Gamecube tonight.
Jake at November 28, 2004 
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SAVE YOUR DATA FAST.
same thing happened today in my office. notebook make "funny" noice. smelled liked burning...
a service technician took care of the thing...
Posted by: Jim at November 29, 2004 5:07 AM
Best of luck Jake, a similar problem happened to me with my OLD song vaio. The hardrive started to make this really loud whining noise, eventually it got so bad i couldnt consentrate or sleep with the damned thing on, then eventually, it just up and died. Luckily i had it under warrantee (one of those 3 year jobs) and they replaced or fixed the hard drive, eitherway, it works now and a lot mroe quiet, not silent however. now its good enough so i let my girlfriend use it after he PC died.
be sure to back up EVERYTHING. Good luck.
-shawn
Posted by: Shawn at November 29, 2004 6:44 AM
Best of luck! Notebooks are tricky creatures. I dread the day mine gives out, it's my life in a rectangle!
Posted by: Mici at November 30, 2004 12:32 PM
I'd highly recommend running a SMART monitoring utility like ActiveSMART: http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/ Essentially this monitors various sensors built into practically every hard disk for the last 10+ years, and is able to predict pretty accurately when your hard disk is about to fail. Theoretically, it can predict up to 70% of hard disk failures in this manner.
I mention this, because recently I had a desktop drive fail, but 2 boots before it failed this utility popped up and told me that things didn't look good for the drive. I was all up to date on the backups, but sure enough, 2 boots later all my drive would do is make strange clicking noises... Well worth the money IMHO. In this day and age, all my backups are going from hard disk to another removable hard disk (because tapes are either too small or too expensive). A tool like this is nessecary these days.
Posted by: Nick at November 30, 2004 4:36 PM
Doh! Yeah I just had a 80gb hard drive take a dump on me after less than a year. wtf?
Posted by: phoric at December 2, 2004 11:59 AM
