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mmainprize
join:2001-12-06
Houghton Lake, MI

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Re: [hard drive] Brought PC to change Power supply now the hard

Maybe he clean the inside of the case with air and got dirt inside the drive. Or the drive got bumped and became out of alinement and is now making noise, maybe a few light taps on the desk will get it inline and it could stop making the noise.
bbear2
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said by mmainprize:

Maybe he clean the inside of the case with air and got dirt inside the drive. Or the drive got bumped and became out of alinement and is now making noise, maybe a few light taps on the desk will get it inline and it could stop making the noise.

HDDs are sealed devices and I've never heard of that seal opeing up on its own. However, cleaning case fans and filters could allow more noise to be transmitted to the outside especially if they were plugged up from gunk.
That still doesn't account for the fact that one drive is noisier than the other though. My experience is that when a drive changes in sound it also has a change in errors. Have you run any diags on it?
Mont
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It was tested for any bad sectors and the result said there was none.
James_C
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HDDs are not sealed. They all have a breather hole somewhere with a filter on it, so that as the air inside heats up, the correct pressure is maintained to keep the read/write head assembly at the proper height off the platter. However, they survive fine with dust caked up on them, it is still not at all likely that dusting out the system would harm it, but liquid getting in that vent hole would, as would anything completely impermeable blocking the vent altogether. Sometimes the vent is a visible hole and other times there's a channel under the cover to a gap on the side of the cover.

Either way, it seems like the HDD bearings were nearly shot and it was bumped enough to damage them to the point that they're now going to wear out fast. First step in a case like this should always be to copy off the most important data, then think about imaging the whole drive to a backup file or another drive. Don't even scan for errors first, sometimes drives have very little time left running before they fail completely.
Mont
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Thanks , i did a clone of the hard drive that same day.

Thanks