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my computer drive is BUZZING!
Ok my hard drive is all of a sudden like buzzing on random moments like a bee. I don't if i should do soemthing about it or what?
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well i'm not a computer genius or anything but i've had this problem before.
all i had to fix was my fan. my fan was being blocked against the wall and it was full of dust. so all i had to do was move my fan away from the wall and clean out all the dust and it was fixed :]
oh and incase you didn't know the fan is on your CPU on the side :]
good luck and i hope that solves your problem!
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This is a good sign that it's about to break.
Hard drives work with a very high degree of precision. There is a magnetic read head which is suspended only micrometers above the platter surface; if this read head is knocked even a tiny bit out of alignment, it can make intermittent contact with the platter. The buzzing noise you're hearing is the sound of this happening while the platter spins at up to 7200 rpm.
Backup your data immediately, and start shopping for a new hard drive. This one's on its last legs.
NOTE: It may not be the hard drive. It may be the fan. Listen carefully to be sure; if it's the fan, then you can probably fix it with a puff or two from a can of canned air, and save yourself some money.
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