Q: I was with my computer last night before bed and when I woke up this morning I noticed the system had rebooted. I thought it was not a big deal. Once I logged in however, I noticed that the hard disk had tripled in volume when reading / writing data.
Im sure everyone knows that mainstream sound with a hard disk entails (the hard drive crunch) now a triple.
I figure that the drive may be about to die. I do not mind because it is a 1 month old Maxtor 300GB. I have all data backed up and now I would rather die than drive one this loud. I went through all the Maxtor drive test and burn in the benchmarks and everything (about 4 different tests in about 7 hours) and everything came back fine.
Does exerpience any person with this? Thoughts? Ideas?
thanks
madison
Best Answer: 1. your hardrive is busted, and updating or restoring will not do any good
2. you have to replace it, I would go to places such as Best buy or big brand stores which you can trust because it's a big fix
3. everything including windows will be gone so when you drop it off to be fixed call your computer's copmany(such as HP), and order the cd which allows you to redownload windows
Re:I had a Maxtor 60GB DM+9 drive, that one time, when it spun up, it made a really LOUD sort of bearing-whine noise. Since it was a FDB-bearing drive, that wasn't normal, it should be virtually silent. Well, less than a week later, it failed catastrophically. Beware.
Re:no, they are in different machines…
weird though.. this morning it is quiet again.
madison
Re:You could email Maxtor about rma for noise, don't know in the case of access noise. Constant noise usually means the bearings are going, and that is a death knell. Are both drives in the same machine?
Re:freeze it in a freezer in a static bag over night
Re:I think so… I bought two of these drives and this one is louder than the other. But I do not think I can RMA it on volume alone can I?
Re:I have the external version of that drive and it is virtually silent. Does it only make noise when accessed?
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