hard drive buzzing noise

GreatNate1312 · 03-17-2009, 12:01 PM

After a windows update instead of macking the little clicking noises hard drives make when writing data mine made little buzzing noises? It stopped immediatly after about 10 seconds and Iv neverhad another noise since. It happened about 2 weeks ago- my computer is around 3 months old. I know all hard drives have there issues because they are very complicated peices of equitment but I was just wondering about someone elses opinion

**WereBo** · 03-17-2009, 06:36 PM

Depending on the actual update involved, the HDD could have been reading loads of small files to make other files, which are then saved as more files. The 'redundant' files should then be removed from the drive. The 10 seconds of buzzing could account for that.

As long as it doesn't come back permanently, that's when you need to really worry

03-17-2009, 12:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
GreatNate1312 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 44 OS: Windows vista home premium sp1	hard drive buzzing noise After a windows update instead of macking the little clicking noises hard drives make when writing data mine made little buzzing noises? It stopped immediatly after about 10 seconds and Iv neverhad another noise since. It happened about 2 weeks ago- my computer is around 3 months old. I know all hard drives have there issues because they are very complicated peices of equitment but I was just wondering about someone elses opinion

03-17-2009, 06:36 PM	#2 (permalink)
WereBo Resident Village Idiot Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: SE London, UK Posts: 14,090 OS: Win-7, XP-Pro SP3 My System	Re: hard drive buzzing noise Depending on the actual update involved, the HDD could have been reading loads of small files to make other files, which are then saved as more files. The 'redundant' files should then be removed from the drive. The 10 seconds of buzzing could account for that. As long as it doesn't come back permanently, that's when you need to really worry __________________ I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.