Hard Drive is chirping

[cpensamiento]

I have a desktop that can’t find the operating system, and it's hard rive makes a continuous chirping sound. Does anyone know what it could be? I hard the recovery discs for the machine and I can reformat the hard drive and reload all applications needed, but I will be losing all of my data.

Please advice
Carl

 

[Smar969905]

I am going to go out on a limb and make some guesses about your hard drive:

A. It is an IBM
or
B. It is old

I have an IBM drive that started doing some funny things, like if it was an old drive, and it was actually not that old. IBM had a bunch of their hard drives made by Hitachi, and almost all of them came out faulty, and would get all messed up quite quickly. If you do have one of these hard drives, you can send it in, and have it repaired/replaced for free.

If your hard drive is not one of those IBM drives, then it is probably old and dying.

In either case, I would reccomend that you go get a new hard drive. I am preferential to Western Digital drives, but Maxtor is making some good drives now as well.

Buen suerte,


Smar969905
Young, foolish, and occasionally knowledgeable...

 

[cpensamiento]

Smar969905,
Thanks for replying.. it actually is an IBM machine.. NetVista to be exact... and i do believe it is a Hitachi hard disk.. how do I go about getting it fixed?
I used the diagnostics disk and it shows no hard drive installed, so I assume it's the hard drive.

 

[Crowley16]

when a harddrive starts to chirp, then it's basically dead...

chirp = death rattle

you'll have to take the hard drive out and send it to IBM or wherever you have support, don't try to repair it yourself...

 

[gbaughma]

.... and of course, you had backups.



Just my $0.02

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