RE: hard drive squeal

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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:

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> 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
>
>
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