HDD noise after chkdsk

Hi,

Thought it might help the HDD, so conducted a chkdsk /r /f on the HDD and
everything went smoothly without any errors.

But after reboot and since then, my HDD would generate noise.

Question: How could I solve the problem or further detect if the HDD is
about breaking down?

Many thanks.

"xfile" <cou-cou@remove.nospam.com> wrote
> Hi,
>
> Thought it might help the HDD, so conducted a chkdsk /r /f on the HDD and
> everything went smoothly without any errors.
>
> But after reboot and since then, my HDD would generate noise.
>
> Question: How could I solve the problem or further detect if the HDD is
> about breaking down?


Download a drive diagnostic utility from the hard drive manufacturer's web
site. That will create a bootable floppy or CD. Boot from that and run the
diagnostics. The first thing to do, however, is make sure there is a full
and complete backup of important data. Any such change in noise from the
hard drive is a bad sign. It wasn't caused by chkdsk per se.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

Hi

Thanks for your kind tip.

The noise problem, however, disappeared after a few boots.

Wondering why and it never happened again and haven't shown up for a while.

But thanks for your tip and I will download utility just in case.


"Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:OVQZrZleHHA.3960@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> "xfile" <cou-cou@remove.nospam.com> wrote
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thought it might help the HDD, so conducted a chkdsk /r /f on the HDD and
>> everything went smoothly without any errors.
>>
>> But after reboot and since then, my HDD would generate noise.
>>
>> Question: How could I solve the problem or further detect if the HDD is
>> about breaking down?
>
>
> Download a drive diagnostic utility from the hard drive manufacturer's web
> site. That will create a bootable floppy or CD. Boot from that and run
> the diagnostics. The first thing to do, however, is make sure there is a
> full and complete backup of important data. Any such change in noise from
> the hard drive is a bad sign. It wasn't caused by chkdsk per se.
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

"xfile" <cou-cou@remove.nospam.com> wrote
> Hi
>
> Thanks for your kind tip.
>
> The noise problem, however, disappeared after a few boots.
>
> Wondering why and it never happened again and haven't shown up for a
> while.
>
> But thanks for your tip and I will download utility just in case.

> "Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote

>> "xfile" <cou-cou@remove.nospam.com> wrote
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thought it might help the HDD, so conducted a chkdsk /r /f on the HDD
>>> and everything went smoothly without any errors.
>>>
>>> But after reboot and since then, my HDD would generate noise.
>>>
>>> Question: How could I solve the problem or further detect if the HDD is
>>> about breaking down?

>> Download a drive diagnostic utility from the hard drive manufacturer's
>> web site. That will create a bootable floppy or CD. Boot from that and
>> run the diagnostics. The first thing to do, however, is make sure there
>> is a full and complete backup of important data. Any such change in
>> noise from the hard drive is a bad sign. It wasn't caused by chkdsk per
>> se.

Watch it closely, always have a full and complete backup. And yes, run the
diagnostic utility.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]