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Posted by chaitlee on September 25, 2006, 12:51 am
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Carl Farrington wrote:
> > People, I replaced my crashed laptop hard disk with a new one, the
> > exact same make & model as the old one (didn't want compatibility
> > issues)... and it worked alright for about a month. Recently it's
> > started beeping at irregular intervals; some days it beeps every couple
> > of hours while I'm working, then there's no peep out of it for days at
> > a stretch. My old hard disk (so they said) crashed because one of the
> > 'heads' got busted. Please hellllllp, someone tell me what's going
> > on!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Hitachi / IBM drives make a wierd noise every couple of hours or so.
> Apparently it's the some sort of calibration routine, so they say.
Hey Carl. Thanks a million for that reply, you've no idea HOW
reassuring it is to hear that. I was all set to ask for an RMA number
tomorrow and have the disk replaced. I guess now I'll hang on a while
longer and see if something does go wrong with it!
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