Hard Drive Help

Posted: January 13, 2014

Computers play a big part in our lives today. Whether used for work or personal tasks, it can be a major inconvience when they break. Here's what to do if you think that your hard drive is on it's last leg.

Lincoln Spector, PC World Contributing Editor, shares what to do if your hard drive begins to make not so pleasant noises.

My hard drive is making scary sounds

A reader's hard drive is making new and unpleasant noises. Could it be on its last legs?

I would say yes. If your hard drive is making sounds it never made before, especially grinding or screeching noises, you have to assume that it won't be around for long. Any moment now, it could be as dead as Michael Palin's parrot.

First, shut off the PC. Until everything is fixed, you want that drive spinning as little as possible. Preferably, not at all.

You'll have to buy a new hard drive, of course, and install it. That's the easy part. The hard part will be recovering everything from the old drive.

Read the entire article My Hard Drive is Making Scary Sounds on PC World.