It’s good to take prevention better than cure. Is your computer’s hard disk making strange sounds, it’s mprobably time to backup data because noises are often symptoms of crashing hard drive.
Not all sounds coming from the computer may be signs of problem, so how can you distinguish noises specific to the hard drive?
Data Cent, (data recovery firm) probably know more about noisy coming from hard drive than anyone else. They created a useful resource about the sounds of hard drives of different manufactures and what that sound indicate
I had some trouble loading the Window Media Player at the time of internet surfing.
Download zip file containing four different sounds that indicate a troubled Hard Disk.