![]() That’s probably what you want to be looking at first. Like I said, the fact that you’re experiencing severe system slowness while this noise is happening really has me concerned about the hard drive. It’s usually pretty clear – it’ll probably be coming from one of the fans or from one of the drives. My approach would be to open the box and just listen carefully to from where the sound is coming. You’ll first back up, then replace the drive, and restore all of your data to it from that backup. That’s why I started by saying back up, now, while it’s still working.īacking up really is the first step of what turns out to be the only real solution. That typically means that when that thing becomes completely loose, it’s going to go flying around in there and cause all sorts of destruction within the drive itself.Īnd that kind of destruction is typically irrecoverable. That grinding noise is something loose inside the hard drive, where there simply shouldn’t be anything loose. Internal destruction is usually what’s next. It’s a precursor to something much, much worse. Sometimes, when a hard drive is failing or about to fail, it can make those kinds of grinding noises. If your machine is working and you’re not already backed up, stop reading right now and back up that machine. Your data may be at a serious risk of complete, irrecoverable loss. The other option that concerns me is the hard drive. I heard it and I fixed it simply by moving the cable out of the way. I rerouted the cable to make room for the hard drive and as a result, the cable ended up sitting in front of the fan. The most recent was when I installed a hard drive. It’s fairly easy to fix if you open up the computer and look for things that are bumping into the blades. If there is something partially obstructing the fan, the blades could be hitting it and that could easily sound like a grinding noise. They do this at start up to make sure that the fans work and to dislodge any dust or dirt that may have accumulated that a low speed wouldn’t just blow out of the way. ![]() ![]() Many computers will run all the fans at full speed for a few seconds. The problem that you want is a fan issue. And in fact, given that your machine is running slowly while this is happening, it might be time to start panicking right now. The other is definitely worth panicking about. One is something that you should deal with, but it’s nothing to really panic over. ![]() There are two possibilities that come to mind. ![]()
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