Is my hard disk dying?


  1. Thoraine
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    Is my hard disk dying?


    Getting abnormally high access times, in excess of 30,000 ms, according to Resource Monitor. Should I be worried? Tried to do a defrag but didn't help. There's often a soft fast repeated tapping noise coming from my HDD.

    Please advise!
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  3. bassfisher6522
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    That sound is usually indicative of a crashing hard drive or soon to crash. Back up all you valuable data and get a new drive.
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  4. aceyclay
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    bassfisher6522 said:
    That sound is usually indicative of a crashing hard drive or soon to crash. Back up all you valuable data and get a new drive.
    i agree. WEIRD sound, noises, ticks from any component that contain moving parts is an indication that the component is failing. backup before its too late
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