Unusual Sounds from the Hard Drive

These sounds can indicate a head physically contacting the platter that contains your data, damage to the hard drive's platters, misalignment of the heads and platter from being dropped or jarred, a power surge potentially causing corrupted firmware that controls the hard drive’s read/write head, an electrical problem like a burned chip or a failing component on the printed circuit board (PCB) controller.

Listen to Hard Drive Failure Sounds:

Microsoft System Blue Screens
When you see a solid blue screen during use of the computer or when you try to boot the system, it can mean the operating system (OS) has been damaged. There are many causes including bad sectors on your hard drive that the system is unable to read, your hard drive could be failing mechanically, or it might only be a virus or human error (someone may have deleted a system file causing the hard drive failure).

Hard Drive is Not Formatted
This error usually indicates the hard drive's partition has been damaged, deleted or corrupted. It can be caused by a virus, a forced shut-down (hard reboot), a power outage or surge, disc partitioning utilities and sometimes updating software, anti-virus programs or simply installing new software can damage a partition.

Hard Drive or Device Not Recognized or Not Found
This error could indicate that the hard drive is bad, the boot priority in bios has been changed, the partition structure is damaged, or a virus has infected your system.

Computer Continuously Reboots
The most common reason a computer keeps rebooting over and over is because the boot sector has been hijacked by a virus that creates a continuous loop. It keeps telling the system to go back to the boot sector and reboot.

System Freezes or Hangs
When your system freezes or hangs while trying to boot or while accessing a file or program it usually indicates that there are bad sectors on the hard drive and the system is unable to access the information it needs to open the file or load the program. It can be caused by a corrupt file or shared program files that have conflicting call procedures or too many system resources are being used (the system memory gets full or overloaded).

Operating System Not Found
An operating system not found message typically means that the operating system files are damaged, the boot device priority has been changed, the partition table is damaged or the hard drive has been formatted causing a hard drive failure.

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