hard drive noise!!!!!!!!!

[Sniper1432]

hi i recently just built a new pc and i was to lazy to put a good hard drive so i put an my emachines one in and it makes so much noise that it's driving me f%%king crazy!!!!!!! is there a way to reduce the noise level?

amd athlon 64 3400+ 2.2ghz
1.5 gigs ram
ati radeon sapphire x1600 pro 512 mb pcie

[|CBW|Simon]

Re: hard drive noise!!!!!!!!!

The fastest way would be to unplug it.

Otherwise, it is what it is.

[Sniper1432]

Re: hard drive noise!!!!!!!!!

is there any way at all to reduce the noise mebe by putting something in my case?

[|CBW|Simon]

Re: hard drive noise!!!!!!!!!

My experiences with hard drives is somewhat dated, but decent. I sold them from 1987 till 1998. What you can do depends on what kind of noise we are talking about. Is it vibrating? Then yes. Does it just sound like someone is scratching a chalkboard? Then no.

Some hard drives are just garbage (no offense) and make noise. In the case of Rodime (years ago) it was faulty lubrication on the spindle mechanism that lead to a sudden increase in noise and shortly thereafter, a horrible sounding death of the drive. The catastrophic failure rate of that line lead to the horrible sounding death of the whole company.

Simon

[Sniper1432]

Re: hard drive noise!!!!!!!!!

its more of a scratching noise every time i load something and sometimes i feel as if my case going to explode!!!

[[2bit]Modmaven]

Re: hard drive noise!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, you just need a new drive. That sounds like a Maxtor to me. They are notorious for making noise and failing. Get a Western Digital. You can get an 80gb for like 40 dollars nowadays.

[Sniper1432]

Re: hard drive noise!!!!!!!!!

that would mean i would have to buy windows right?

[|CBW|Simon]

Re: hard drive noise!!!!!!!!!

Maxtor has a drive to drive copy software that comes with their drive. I'm not sure about WD or other companies. You wouldn't need to buy a new copy of windows. You could use your current copy. If you don't have a legal copy of windows, this is not the forum to be asking questions of that type.

Simon

[Sniper1432]

Re: hard drive noise!!!!!!!!!

the hard drive that i have already has wind. on it unless i could burn my info on a disk an install on the new hd?

[|CBW|Simon]

Re: hard drive noise!!!!!!!!!

Same as above post. Stick to Maxtor drive. It has the utility that can do what you need.