windows=loud, linux=quiet ...hard drive question

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fender

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If I'm running windows xp, the drive is loud as hell, and makes an irratating high pitched clicking sound every few minutes. When I'm running linux, its completely silent. What's going on?
 
I bough it around last march, and it's been making the noise for about 8 months now in windows.
 
it probably has something to do with
1) linux is better
2) the portion of the hard drive which windows is on has physical errors or other stresses/flaws which cause the spinning head to make noises. aka your hard drive is most likely dying, atleast that chunk of the hard drive is.
 
run scandisk (start/programs/accessories/system tools/scandisk) on Standard with automatically fix errors checked

also, perhaps your swap file is being unduly accessed since you're using windows? look at the Unofficial Official Tweak Guide, and read Phoenix86's great advice.


hope this helps.
 
I knew linux is better, but i didn't thinknot that better :p
Be careful though, the clicking sound (and resulting errors) could spread to the Linux partition. In the words of sigmend: Back up your data.
 
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