On 10 Oct 99 at 0:00, Ben Hood wrote:
>>Now for the real point of this post:
>>
>>I'm sure the noise is from the harddrive. When pressed down the noise
>>changes pitch. It also gets warm, but AFAICT not excessive. So, does
>>anybody know how I can stop this noise? And could it damage it even
>>more? The noise is annoying. There are no bad sectors, according to
>>scandisk.
>>
>>I think the previous owners might have tried to get it fixed and got
>>it reformmated - not muched used: only two shareware games, windows
>>and MSWorks.
>>
>>--Editing later:
>>I've put zipslack on the harddrive of this computer [geez those
>>directories run deep!] and got on the internet for 4 hours. Towards
>>the end of this, the hdd was making all kind of strange noises. So
>>it might be on its last legs. :(
Unless it just out and out crashes on you and becomes totally
useless, you can use it as a slave or secondary drive and put it to
sleep on boot. This stops the noise and should increse the life
(what's left anyway). Then you can use it for backup purposes or as a
download drive for stuff you get from the net. I have an old Maxtor
245 megger that is intolerably noisy that I put in sleep mode on boot
and I use it for downloads storage and backups of my C: drive using
PKZIP to backup each subdirectory into a single file. It has some bad
sectors, but so far so good.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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