Low Pitch humming sound from hard drive?
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This is a real good time to backup your files. If it the hard drive fails it will cost you thousands of dollars to recover your files from the hard drive if they can be recovered at all.
These noises are typical with CD/DVD drives but not hard drives. Your hard drive might be failing. It might also only be a vibration of your computer case, a CPU fan, a video card fan, a power supply fan, or a case fan that is making this noise.
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Read the following and be ready to reinstall everything on a new hard drive if the old one fails.
Reformat and Reinstall
Run Belarc Adviser: Print out results.
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html...
Locate all your drivers and software disks and keys.
Product key finder: Keyfinder Thing 3.1.6
http://www.download.com/keyfinder-thing/...
Backup all your files. Don't backup installed software.
Read the following prior to reformatting:
Pre Flattening and Reinstall Checklist
http://blog.angrypets.com/2006/01/ultima...
http://www.thefuhrmans.com/reformat_hd.h...
Reformat and install. (Cleans drive. You loses all data)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348...
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using...
http://www.whitecanyon.com/reformat-the-...
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/...
Well humming or just running all the time trying to access information? You can try a hard drive test make make sure the hard drive is functioning correctly and not failing. Again the humming may just be the drive running but it may be failing causing the noise. If the drive fails you can replace it but if you don't back up your information before it fails you will not be able to recover it. So try to this first and then if it is failing back up your stuff swap out the hard drives and reload your information. To back windows you can try a software called GHOST and copy the image. You can try to email http://computervillageusa.com for help and what to buy.
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