Noisy HDD

Hi all,
I think I may have mentioned this prior but due to increase in
frequency I am bringing it up again.
My hard drive is making a sort of 'knocking sound' but Only at the
beginning & end of a download from the internet.
Is this something that is 'normal' at times or something a little more
sinister.
I do understand that like spark-plugs, things need replacing; What
I dont understand is the 'knocking' only occuring as mentioned.

Hope I get good news.......

regards Jane

You're sure it's your hard drive and not a programmed sound event? Humor
me--mute your volume control and see if it still happens.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"jane" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
I think I may have mentioned this prior but due to increase in
frequency I am bringing it up again.
My hard drive is making a sort of 'knocking sound' but Only at the
beginning & end of a download from the internet.
Is this something that is 'normal' at times or something a little more
sinister.
I do understand that like spark-plugs, things need replacing; What
I dont understand is the 'knocking' only occuring as mentioned.

Hope I get good news.......

regards Jane

You're sure it's your hard drive and not a programmed sound event? Humor
me--mute your volume control and see if it still happens.
----------------
Hi gary,
I have had the sides off of the box for around two weeks now..
(ever since i had that prob' with the fans etc) and it is definately
coming directly from the hard-drive.
It is sort of like a "knocking" sound from within the hard-drive unit,
it knocks about 4 times as download starts and similar when it
finishes............. odd wouldnt you say?
Apart from that, comp is running fine.
Also, the downloads themselves reach their destination without
a hitch at all.

Thanks,

regards Jane




Hi all,
I think I may have mentioned this prior but due to increase in
frequency I am bringing it up again.
My hard drive is making a sort of 'knocking sound' but Only at the
beginning & end of a download from the internet.
Is this something that is 'normal' at times or something a little more
sinister.
I do understand that like spark-plugs, things need replacing; What
I dont understand is the 'knocking' only occuring as mentioned.

Hope I get good news.......

regards Jane

How often do you defrag, and does a defrag change the behavior in any
way?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"jane" wrote in message
...


You're sure it's your hard drive and not a programmed sound event?
Humor
me--mute your volume control and see if it still happens.
----------------
Hi gary,
I have had the sides off of the box for around two weeks now..
(ever since i had that prob' with the fans etc) and it is definately
coming directly from the hard-drive.
It is sort of like a "knocking" sound from within the hard-drive unit,
it knocks about 4 times as download starts and similar when it
finishes............. odd wouldnt you say?
Apart from that, comp is running fine.
Also, the downloads themselves reach their destination without
a hitch at all.

Thanks,

regards Jane




Hi all,
I think I may have mentioned this prior but due to increase in
frequency I am bringing it up again.
My hard drive is making a sort of 'knocking sound' but Only at the
beginning & end of a download from the internet.
Is this something that is 'normal' at times or something a little
more
sinister.
I do understand that like spark-plugs, things need replacing; What
I dont understand is the 'knocking' only occuring as mentioned.

Hope I get good news.......

regards Jane

Did you ever run the manufacturer's diagnostics on the drive, Jane? I don't
remember from your other posts if you ever did. Also, how old is the drive?
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

"jane" wrote in message
...


You're sure it's your hard drive and not a programmed sound event? Humor
me--mute your volume control and see if it still happens.
----------------
Hi gary,
I have had the sides off of the box for around two weeks now..
(ever since i had that prob' with the fans etc) and it is definately
coming directly from the hard-drive.
It is sort of like a "knocking" sound from within the hard-drive unit,
it knocks about 4 times as download starts and similar when it
finishes............. odd wouldnt you say?
Apart from that, comp is running fine.
Also, the downloads themselves reach their destination without
a hitch at all.

Thanks,

regards Jane




Hi all,
I think I may have mentioned this prior but due to increase in
frequency I am bringing it up again.
My hard drive is making a sort of 'knocking sound' but Only at the
beginning & end of a download from the internet.
Is this something that is 'normal' at times or something a little more
sinister.
I do understand that like spark-plugs, things need replacing; What
I dont understand is the 'knocking' only occuring as mentioned.

Hope I get good news.......

regards Jane

Pulling another all-nighter, Gary? ;-)

....glen

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
How often do you defrag, and does a defrag change the behavior in any
way?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"jane" wrote in message
...


You're sure it's your hard drive and not a programmed sound event?
Humor
me--mute your volume control and see if it still happens.
----------------
Hi gary,
I have had the sides off of the box for around two weeks now..
(ever since i had that prob' with the fans etc) and it is definately
coming directly from the hard-drive.
It is sort of like a "knocking" sound from within the hard-drive unit,
it knocks about 4 times as download starts and similar when it
finishes............. odd wouldnt you say?
Apart from that, comp is running fine.
Also, the downloads themselves reach their destination without
a hitch at all.

Thanks,

regards Jane




Hi all,
I think I may have mentioned this prior but due to increase in
frequency I am bringing it up again.
My hard drive is making a sort of 'knocking sound' but Only at the
beginning & end of a download from the internet.
Is this something that is 'normal' at times or something a little
more
sinister.
I do understand that like spark-plugs, things need replacing; What
I dont understand is the 'knocking' only occuring as mentioned.

Hope I get good news.......

regards Jane

Yup. Still trying to rescue the wife's XP system. Keep running into
snags. I was lucky in that she had it installed on FAT32. I could use a
Win98 system to copy off the bad disk to a good one (that I stole from
my system--part of a RAID array that went bad several months ago that I
never got around to repairing, switching to a 250GB Maxtor
"temporarily".)

But then, I was Unlucky in that the "Restore" disks for that system
aren't standard installation disks and wouldn't do a decent Repair of
the system (actually, I learned that on the 13th, and swapped the drive
to another machine I have in reserve), so I'm trying an MSDN disk.
Unfortunately, I have a DVD subscription, and the DVD drive in that
system is too flaky to effect a complete Repair install. So, I tried
copying the files to the HD, only remembering about the time the copy
finished (after an hour) that you can't run XP setup from a DOS prompt.
So now, I'm making another installation CD from an ISO image....

And the beat goes on... (It's actually kinda nice to have a quiet
house--Wife is asleep with five poodles snuggled up against her,
daughter is finally asleep after a day of flu-like symptoms, and even
the big dog outside my window, on the porch, isn't going off at every
passing car and homeward-bound drunk like he usually does.)

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"glee" wrote in message
...
Pulling another all-nighter, Gary? ;-)

...glen

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
How often do you defrag, and does a defrag change the behavior in
any
way?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"jane" wrote in message
...


You're sure it's your hard drive and not a programmed sound
event?
Humor
me--mute your volume control and see if it still happens.
----------------
Hi gary,
I have had the sides off of the box for around two weeks now..
(ever since i had that prob' with the fans etc) and it is
definately
coming directly from the hard-drive.
It is sort of like a "knocking" sound from within the hard-drive
unit,
it knocks about 4 times as download starts and similar when it
finishes............. odd wouldnt you say?
Apart from that, comp is running fine.
Also, the downloads themselves reach their destination without
a hitch at all.

Thanks,

regards Jane




Hi all,
I think I may have mentioned this prior but due to increase in
frequency I am bringing it up again.
My hard drive is making a sort of 'knocking sound' but Only at
the
beginning & end of a download from the internet.
Is this something that is 'normal' at times or something a
little
more
sinister.
I do understand that like spark-plugs, things need replacing;
What
I dont understand is the 'knocking' only occuring as
mentioned.

Hope I get good news.......

regards Jane

Sounds like one of my computer adventures. ;-) The only free time I have to work
on mine is late at night/early morning. (...and here I thought NTFS was supposed to
be the "way to go" on XP systems. What prompted you to use FAT32?) I hear Brian A
getting ready to strike

Well, off to work here.....yeech! Get some rest in there somewhere, dude!

....glen

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
Yup. Still trying to rescue the wife's XP system. Keep running into
snags. I was lucky in that she had it installed on FAT32. I could use a
Win98 system to copy off the bad disk to a good one (that I stole from
my system--part of a RAID array that went bad several months ago that I
never got around to repairing, switching to a 250GB Maxtor
"temporarily".)

But then, I was Unlucky in that the "Restore" disks for that system
aren't standard installation disks and wouldn't do a decent Repair of
the system (actually, I learned that on the 13th, and swapped the drive
to another machine I have in reserve), so I'm trying an MSDN disk.
Unfortunately, I have a DVD subscription, and the DVD drive in that
system is too flaky to effect a complete Repair install. So, I tried
copying the files to the HD, only remembering about the time the copy
finished (after an hour) that you can't run XP setup from a DOS prompt.
So now, I'm making another installation CD from an ISO image....

And the beat goes on... (It's actually kinda nice to have a quiet
house--Wife is asleep with five poodles snuggled up against her,
daughter is finally asleep after a day of flu-like symptoms, and even
the big dog outside my window, on the porch, isn't going off at every
passing car and homeward-bound drunk like he usually does.)

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"glee" wrote in message
...
Pulling another all-nighter, Gary? ;-)

...glen

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
How often do you defrag, and does a defrag change the behavior in
any
way?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"jane" wrote in message
...


You're sure it's your hard drive and not a programmed sound
event?
Humor
me--mute your volume control and see if it still happens.
----------------
Hi gary,
I have had the sides off of the box for around two weeks now..
(ever since i had that prob' with the fans etc) and it is
definately
coming directly from the hard-drive.
It is sort of like a "knocking" sound from within the hard-drive
unit,
it knocks about 4 times as download starts and similar when it
finishes............. odd wouldnt you say?
Apart from that, comp is running fine.
Also, the downloads themselves reach their destination without
a hitch at all.

Thanks,

regards Jane




Hi all,
I think I may have mentioned this prior but due to increase in
frequency I am bringing it up again.
My hard drive is making a sort of 'knocking sound' but Only at
the
beginning & end of a download from the internet.
Is this something that is 'normal' at times or something a
little
more
sinister.
I do understand that like spark-plugs, things need replacing;
What
I dont understand is the 'knocking' only occuring as
mentioned.

Hope I get good news.......

regards Jane

I didn't choose the FAT32 install. It came that way. And my wife doesn't
let me touch her system or even tell her what to do--until she gets into
trouble.

If it had been an NTFS system, I still would have chosen a Win98 system
to work from, but I would have used R-Studio to snag the files instead.
With FAT32 and Win98 Copy, I avoided the delays inherent in reading a
screwed up drive at low level--reams of log stating that "after ten
tries, disk couldn't be read starting at 43445568907" or whatever. Win98
is blissfully unaware of such garbage and is also nice enough to not try
to write anything to the disk.

Had three calls from clients, yesterday, with odd hardware problems,
always accompanied by signs of virus. Had to tell them to get in line

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"glee" wrote in message
...
Sounds like one of my computer adventures. ;-) The only free time I
have to work
on mine is late at night/early morning. (...and here I thought NTFS
was supposed to
be the "way to go" on XP systems. What prompted you to use FAT32?) I
hear Brian A
getting ready to strike

Well, off to work here.....yeech! Get some rest in there somewhere,
dude!

...glen

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
Yup. Still trying to rescue the wife's XP system. Keep running into
snags. I was lucky in that she had it installed on FAT32. I could
use a
Win98 system to copy off the bad disk to a good one (that I stole
from
my system--part of a RAID array that went bad several months ago
that I
never got around to repairing, switching to a 250GB Maxtor
"temporarily".)

But then, I was Unlucky in that the "Restore" disks for that system
aren't standard installation disks and wouldn't do a decent Repair
of
the system (actually, I learned that on the 13th, and swapped the
drive
to another machine I have in reserve), so I'm trying an MSDN disk.
Unfortunately, I have a DVD subscription, and the DVD drive in that
system is too flaky to effect a complete Repair install. So, I tried
copying the files to the HD, only remembering about the time the
copy
finished (after an hour) that you can't run XP setup from a DOS
prompt.
So now, I'm making another installation CD from an ISO image....

And the beat goes on... (It's actually kinda nice to have a quiet
house--Wife is asleep with five poodles snuggled up against her,
daughter is finally asleep after a day of flu-like symptoms, and
even
the big dog outside my window, on the porch, isn't going off at
every
passing car and homeward-bound drunk like he usually does.)

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"glee" wrote in message
...
Pulling another all-nighter, Gary? ;-)

...glen

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
How often do you defrag, and does a defrag change the behavior
in
any
way?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"jane" wrote in message
...


You're sure it's your hard drive and not a programmed sound
event?
Humor
me--mute your volume control and see if it still happens.
----------------
Hi gary,
I have had the sides off of the box for around two weeks now..
(ever since i had that prob' with the fans etc) and it is
definately
coming directly from the hard-drive.
It is sort of like a "knocking" sound from within the
hard-drive
unit,
it knocks about 4 times as download starts and similar when it
finishes............. odd wouldnt you say?
Apart from that, comp is running fine.
Also, the downloads themselves reach their destination without
a hitch at all.

Thanks,

regards Jane




Hi all,
I think I may have mentioned this prior but due to
increase in
frequency I am bringing it up again.
My hard drive is making a sort of 'knocking sound' but
Only at
the
beginning & end of a download from the internet.
Is this something that is 'normal' at times or something a
little
more
sinister.
I do understand that like spark-plugs, things need
replacing;
What
I dont understand is the 'knocking' only occuring as
mentioned.

Hope I get good news.......

regards Jane

I read in a Dan Gookin (or whatever his name is)book that he had a hard drive that made a hell of a lot of noise just before it conked out. But to be honest mine can often be quite noisy. I have two fans inside the system unit and a long side with various programs running it can get quite noisy so unless it sounds like a plane taking off I wouldn't worry about it.

Originally Posted by Gary S. Terhune

You're sure it's your hard drive and not a programmed sound event? Humor
me--mute your volume control and see if it still happens.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"jane" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
I think I may have mentioned this prior but due to increase in
frequency I am bringing it up again.
My hard drive is making a sort of 'knocking sound' but Only at the
beginning & end of a download from the internet.
Is this something that is 'normal' at times or something a little more
sinister.
I do understand that like spark-plugs, things need replacing; What
I dont understand is the 'knocking' only occuring as mentioned.

Hope I get good news.......

regards Jane