HDD occasionally makes grating sound during boot

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Alexmclaa

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Hello
There are times where I turn my computer on and just before the Windows 7 loading screen there is a grating sound and the boot is delayed by a couple of seconds. This doesn't happen all of the time but when it does, it makes a nasty grating sound. It still works fine though. It's a WD Blue drive.
Thank you.
 
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volcanoscout

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I would recommend that you ensure you have a current drive image backed up somewhere, then try running either of these diagnostics programs. The Seagate diagnostic will work, even though your drive is a WD. A "nasty grating sound" could be a couple of things, but none of them are good.

WD: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=612&sid=3

Seagate: http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/seatools-win-master/
 
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Sounds like the drive is starting to fail mechanically and the chances are the noise will get more frequent then finally just break, as Volcanoscout said make a backup of anything you need because it really could fail at any time.
 
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