Hard Drive Problem

[crydee]

My 7200.10 320GB is my primary drive and has my windows partition on it. Every time I turn it on and it starts the loading process for windows it makes a grinding/static sound. It started after leaving it off for about 6 days. About 1 in 30 times I can turn it on and get in windows and no noise or any stability problems. The other times after about a minute of it loading with a weird black screen it gives a corrupt system file error.

I never had any problems before and I have new information on that drive. I am probably going to start the warranty process with Seagate in a few days but if anyone has any ideas or how to get the information off of it or knows what caused it would be nice. I haven't tried to put the windows cd in and try a repair yet but I probably will and see what I can get form that but the noise is really not normal.

 

[Laputa]

Looks like you are likely to use Seagate's warranty replacement service. What you are hearing is probably the beginning signs of surface scrape. I would pull the data out asap and put them in another drive if I were you if the data is important.