hard drive squeal

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John Griffin wrote:
> I have an HP computer running XP that is about three years old.
>
> Recently I have been noticing a high pitched squeal. I removed the
> side of the case and it seems to be coming from the the hard drive.
>
> What I was wondering is the the hard drive spins all the time or just
> when being accessed etc.?

This could be a warning sign the drive is about to go out.
Backup your data often to prepare for it.

Hard drives spin all the time unless you have your power management setup to
power it down when idle.

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All hd mfgs have a DOS utility to chk the drive,download and run it from
the floppy.3 yrs old is going to be borderline anyway,purchase new,then
set old as storage and as a page file.

"John Griffin" wrote:

>
> I have an HP computer running XP that is about three years old.
>
> Recently I have been noticing a high pitched squeal. I removed the side
> of the case and it seems to be coming from the the hard drive.
>
> What I was wondering is the the hard drive spins all the time or just
> when being accessed etc.?
>
> TIA
>
> John
>
>