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Old 03-08-2007, 08:59 PM
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Hello, I am new to this forum, and I have a problem with my hard drive in that it is making a rather disturbing buzzing noise, this has been happening for around 3 days, and I am a little worried that my hard disk may fail sometime soon. The drive a Maxtor 20GB ATA drive.
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Old 03-08-2007, 10:10 PM
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Hdd's that are working correctly don't make buzzing noises. I'd suggest it's on it's way out.

I'd highly recommend a complete backup immediately.
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Agreed, back up anything important now, it's on it's way to the hard drive graveyard. :)
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Old 04-08-2007, 11:44 AM
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The thing is I'm totally screwed because the shop who sold me the computer don't give you a recovery disk etc, and also when I boot the computer up there is little or no buzzing, but throughout the day it gets louder, but I dont get a degrade in performance or anything.
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could it be because its getting to hot?
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The thing is I'm totally screwed because the shop who sold me the computer don't give you a recovery disk etc
You don't need a recovery disk to back up your data, just burn it all to CD/DVD.
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he is going to need lost of cd's for that, the drive is 20 gigs, unless u can compress the files or some thing like that.
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he is going to need lost of cd's for that, the drive is 20 gigs, unless u can compress the files or some thing like that.
Not really, he probably only has 15Gb or so of data worth backing up, equates to two DVDs.
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