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Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
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Or sorta growl sometimes while your sitting there readings posts?

Whats it doing.Sorting files?
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  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    Uh oh. The drive is always spinning, unless in sleep mode or power off, at 5400 or 7200 RPM. If you hear grinding, your drive may be on it's way out, with the heads grinding on the platters. Back everything up NOW and get yourself a new HD.
  • mdwoodsmdwoods Posts: 5,549 ✭✭✭
    If you are using XP, it could be that File Indexing is turned on and running in the background. Just a thought. mdwoods

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  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    It's all that spyware that you've downloaded doing stuff.
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Are you sure it's the hard drive? On the computer I'm using right now every so often the A drive (which is empty) turns on and grinds and clicks for awhile and then turns back off. I never get any messages or error warnings though.
  • 1956Quarter1956Quarter Posts: 400
    Could be its going bad. Could be its working due to spyware. Fox News tonight had an urgent article on a Critical Security Flaw found in ALL versions of Windows after 95. Go here to update your windows.

    http://www.microsoft.com/security/

    Go to right side of page and click second selection down.
  • KlectorKidKlectorKid Posts: 3,723
    My fan makes high pitched squeeks. It got bumped out of place and rubs agianst something in there making a really annoying noise. image
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  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    disable the "findfast" file-caching software - it's built into windows.

    K S
  • ROBBItheOKIEROBBItheOKIE Posts: 369 ✭
    My old windows 98 used to do that but since I got my new computer with XP, it has not done it. Watch out Cam its wanting you to let the dogs out. image WHO LET THE DOGS OUT, WOOF WOOF WOOF imageimage

    Really man all fun aside I have no Idea.
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I get a fwip-fwip-fwip helicopter sound sometimes. It's definitely not the A drive. That has a distinctive brrrrrrrrap! sound when there's no floppy in it.

    Maybe it's the cup holder... image

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  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,243 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not now image My replacement drive is currently in the shop trying to get my old 30GB of files from my now dead drive... good thing I installed Windows a while back on my old drive image

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  • ROBBItheOKIEROBBItheOKIE Posts: 369 ✭
    Lordmarcovan, Is that what that thing is that comes out of the front of my computer? A cup holder I thought it was the place to put the coaster to set the cup on! Imagine thatimage
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yeah- but they made the daggum hole in it too small, unless you use a sissy cup, or one of those li'l paper cones like they have next to water coolers...

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  • wallstreetmanwallstreetman Posts: 2,938 ✭
    It only grinds when I put coffee in it! Dog is right, you got spys in your system!
    You can fool man but you can't fool God! He knows why you do what you do!
  • sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭
    bang it on the side - sometimes it goes away.
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What I'd like to figger out is why my dang Gateway is so slow. It takes the words I type 10-15 seconds to appear on the screen! Somebody suggested I had spyware, and now I run AdAware frequently to clean it out, but anytime I type or click a flash button, there's this godawful lag. It's gotten so bad I don't even use it to surf anymore- I only log onto the Internet from work. It's drivin' me mad. I tried defrag, scandisk, AdAware, and so on, to no avail.

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  • wallstreetmanwallstreetman Posts: 2,938 ✭
    Lordmarcovan, You simply need to clean out all your internet trash! Another way to speed up the system is to turn off things you dont need on Startup, typing in msconfig in Run! How much free space do you have?
    You can fool man but you can't fool God! He knows why you do what you do!
  • wallstreetmanwallstreetman Posts: 2,938 ✭
    Sounds like a lot of you have fans out of balance because their dirty!
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dunno how much space I have, but I've cleaned out my Temporary Internet Files, and cookies, and all that stuff...

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  • dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,736 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Usually file swapping. When your system moves data from RAM to the swap space on the hard drive. Windows XP SUCKS big time with this process. I have 256Megs on my XP box and am going to add another gig to make it work. Why would anyone with windows 2000 upgrade? (I did because of the multimedia aspects, but only on one of my many machines. Businesses have no reason to) Microsoft finally released a decent product (win2k) and no one will move from it. Now they are trying to force them to do it. I really hate that company.
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  • jd4sciencejd4science Posts: 66
    I was having a problem a while back like this with the "file index" thing in XP. For some reason it was ALWAYS using 100% of a 2.0 GHZ P4 and 512 DDR SDRAM. With the suggestion of people here, I tried to turn it off normally, but it kept going!image It took a registry hack to shut it off. . .
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  • prooflikeprooflike Posts: 3,879 ✭✭
    Try emptying your cache.
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