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September 21st 06, 06:56 PM
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Hard Drive making high pitched noises
After installing Vista RC1, I noticed my hard drive is making audible high pitched noises. The pattern of the noise is 1 second steady beep-like noise, then maybe .1 second silence. When I create disk activity, the noise alters or disappears. I did not have this noise when running Windows XP. I have a Dell Latitude D810 with a Pentium M 1.73 and 1 GB RAM. It is possible that it isn't the hard drive making the noise, but seems like the most likely culprit. Any ideas? 
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October 1st 06, 01:08 AM
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Hard Drive making high pitched noises
I'd look for overheating, poor connectors (power, IDE or SATA cable).
Next, you can run a hard-drive 'health' tool form a CD or other media - most hard-drive manufacturers have such tools on their websites and Dell might have one as well. Chkdsk and defrag might also help - the heads might be in a sort of loop cause of corrupted or overly fragmented files or file table. Some drives spin down on idle - this one might be trying. If you have files that you need to backup/save, make sure you do that first. Michael "bjdku" wrote in message ... After installing Vista RC1, I noticed my hard drive is making audible high pitched noises. The pattern of the noise is 1 second steady beep-like noise, then maybe .1 second silence. When I create disk activity, the noise alters or disappears. I did not have this noise when running Windows XP. I have a Dell Latitude D810 with a Pentium M 1.73 and 1 GB RAM. It is possible that it isn't the hard drive making the noise, but seems like the most likely culprit. Any ideas?
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October 1st 06, 07:01 PM
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Hard Drive making high pitched noises
Thanks a bunch, these are great suggestions. I am thinking it may be an
overheating issue, because Vista is just working my laptop a lot harder than XP did, but I am not certain. I will try each of your suggestions and post back if I figure it out. "Phillips" wrote: I'd look for overheating, poor connectors (power, IDE or SATA cable). Next, you can run a hard-drive 'health' tool form a CD or other media - most hard-drive manufacturers have such tools on their websites and Dell might have one as well. Chkdsk and defrag might also help - the heads might be in a sort of loop cause of corrupted or overly fragmented files or file table. Some drives spin down on idle - this one might be trying. If you have files that you need to backup/save, make sure you do that first. Michael "bjdku" wrote in message ... After installing Vista RC1, I noticed my hard drive is making audible high pitched noises. The pattern of the noise is 1 second steady beep-like noise, then maybe .1 second silence. When I create disk activity, the noise alters or disappears. I did not have this noise when running Windows XP. I have a Dell Latitude D810 with a Pentium M 1.73 and 1 GB RAM. It is possible that it isn't the hard drive making the noise, but seems like the most likely culprit. Any ideas?
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