Slowboot , Harddisk Makes Weird Loud Noice
May 8, 2008
Recently I had a crash while I was playing a game, so I rebooted manually because I had too. From that time, when Vista boots, my harddisk makes a weird loud noice everytime before entering loginscreen and my boottime is extended with +-20sec. I've figured out myself that since the crash ,I watched a startup log and saw that Vista does a quick chkdisk, which would explain the extra noise my HD does just before booting. I've tried everything , from checking for a dirty-bit , disabling autochkddk to even formating my system. But every time my system crashes, the next time it boots , my HD makes a weird noise.
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Dec 3, 2009
Sorry if this is the wrong section but, sometimes when im just on the computer my computer will make a noise. I really dont know how to describe the noise but its like when the fan in your room is turned to like extra fast. Whenever the noise comes my computer just starts to lag.
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Jan 9, 2008
ive noticed that my hard drives are loud at weird times? when im not doing anyting? its very annoying? is this vista or my hard drives?
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Mar 13, 2009
My Vista PC is accessing the HD all the time - sometimes once every
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could be the problem, but haven't been able to.
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Jan 6, 2010
I bought an HP Pavilion DV7-3020sa a week ago which has 2 HDD areas but only
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I have bought an identical HDD to the one already installed to fit into the
2nd drive slot but cannot find anywhere where I can buy the lead to connect
it to the mainboard.
Having now tried over 15 companies, including HP, I am becoming frustrated.
Does anyone know where the lead can be purchased?
It is a SATA socket on one end and a very very small plug on the other and
is only around one inch long. (Please note that it does not connect directly
to the mainboard in the usual clip-in method, it does have a small cable!)
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I just recived my new notebook with a single partition on it. I want to repartion my hardrive. i tried with disk managment tool but it is not working. i can able to shrink the drive but can't able to format that drive.
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I have an external harddisk which continuesly is read only no matter what i do. I have browsed the net intensively to find a solution, but can se the problem solved anywhere. I am running Vista Home Premium x64. When I right click the HD and click preperties, I dont have a security tab, so I cant do the solutions that involve that.
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Sep 11, 2009
the windows sounds like the startup sound and the asterisks etc are not loud enough even at the max volume. The music and video etc. are loud and fine.but the general windows sounds are too low in volume even at max volume.and it recognizes it too because when i set the volume to max in the corner to next to the clock,the green bar fills only 20% or so when it beeps.
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May 26, 2008
Sometimes there are loud clicking noises and the computer is generally loud when it starts up or whilst it's on. The computer will crash on occasions and won't start back up. I am thinking it is a problem with the hard disk as when it doesn't switch on, it is as if the computer cannot locate it. It is persistently crashing and not starting up and the noises are constant. What should I do?
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Mar 26, 2009
My laptop's HD seems to have a major bad block. When trying to read certain files the disk always starts clicking and making strange and rather disturbing noises for about 2 minutes before the system fails and I get a blue screen.Fortunately most of these files seem to be in a directory that I only kept "just in case" anyway, i.e. there would be no =
major harm, if these file are lost. I only noticed, that these are corrupted, when trying to read them while making a backup. Alas, that backup never fully ran through due to the problem described.
I am thus seeking a program that tries to read the entire disk (and does not crash, if it gets errors...) and marks files that contain unreadable blocks such that the OS doesn't try to access these any more. As far as I know that should be possible. I once read that there is some kind of bad block list somewhere. Ideally it would also try to read damaged files a certain number of times (e.g. 1000 times or so) trying to recover as much data as possible and if it was able to read entire files it copies their content over to greener pastures. That would allow to minimize the actual data loss.
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Nov 18, 2008
my processor is a Pentium D 2.3ghz but it can not handle much I remember awhile ago I had customized it so it would not be really loud because once my processor takes too much the fan boosts up making my computer really loud is there any advice or anything to keep processes down as much as possible and make my fan and processor quieter at all?
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May 7, 2010
I've had some trouble with my system - Dell XPS 630I - hibernation problems, not being able to set or go back to a Restore Point, etc. So I've had a Microsoft tech help me solve my problems in the last few weeks, and after finally coming to the 'Reinstall Vista' as the only solution, I reinstalled yesterday. I have not yet installed any drivers or Dell software, but, obviously, did get my internet capability back.
I'm not worried about getting my system back to normal working order eventually, but one thing has me concerned: My system is running so loud and fast constantly. Previously, when I turned my computer on, during the startup phase, it ran like this (loud and fast, noisy) until it reached the black screen with the colorful, Vista circle in the middle, at which point it quieted down completely and continued with the Windows startup. Does anyone know what it is that has my computer sound like its running so fast, and sounding so loud constantly. Is it going to be one of the system drivers that I will eventually load that will 'calm' my system down??
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May 30, 2009
When I burn a data DVD using the right click - sent to d: my system laggs really bad.
My specs are
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (2.6GHz dual core)
3gb DDR2 ram
nForce 430 chipset
geForce 6150SE (256mb dedicated and 1100mb shared)
DVD multi drive
all drivers are the latest x64 versions
Windows Vista Home Premium x64 SP2 (up to date on all updates)
I'm using DVD+RW disks....
Is this normal.I mean my entire computer was lagging BAD and this is a fresh install of Vista (just switched from x86 to x64 a few daysago). None of my resources are being hogged up or anything like that page file was at about 1.5gb, 35% memory usage (out of 3gigs),processor usage was at about 10%.
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Alias has to scam little old ladies out of their hard earned money to purchase Ubuntu and everyone knows that Ubuntu is free but NOBODY wants it. Imagine, Ubuntu is free and is still on less than one percent of the desktops out there. That should tell you all you need to know about that piece of crap OS.
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Whenever i try to download anything it just make a little beeping noise when the downloading is done and then when i go to check where my program is it's gone,
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May 15, 2010
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May 19, 2009
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Dec 15, 2009
I had this problem a long time ago, I don't know why my laptop has it, it was some sound like a sigh, appearing about 6, 7 times and then off, and then it appears again. I attached an external HDD 1TB from SeaGate, is this one make my laptop runs over limited?
I use Vista 32 bit, service pack 2, Memory 3Gb, Hard drive 250 GB, Firefox, IE8, Opera 10. My laptop is HP Pavilion dv2910us .
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this just started happening today..it wont complete the assessment..
check out the images below
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