WD probs

I have a question, I have a WD drive 40gb, it is a year old, and it is partitioned with 4 partitions. and about 6 months ago it started to get full, I was moving files around and whenever it would write and read(when converting mp3s) from the last partition it makes a noise, like an old drive with the kinda grinding noise to it, but not like metal on metal grinding, my wife asked someone and they had told her that its the armature moving rapidly due to virtual mem, the mach has over 512 and it will make the noise only on the last partion when there is lots of activity(reading writing) and no other programs are running except windows, I told her its the drive on the verge of failure

any thoughts?

yea i think your harddrive is about to die.

stan03 said:

yea i think your harddrive is about to die.

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yep, I would backup everything you dont want to lose right now! cause there is no telling when it will go south

what didn't make sense to me is that I'm running win98 with more than enough mem, so the virtual mem shouldn't be the cause of the noise, and is far from normal operation, the person who told her this is a math professor, and cs professor, but I'm still saying it is a dying drive

Back up just incase...then run the diagnostics tools disklettes... or download from the WD site..... this will check your HDD for problems..

do you have SMART enabled in the bios? it might tell you if you have a sick drive as well.