ok...just wanted to say that I think my HD is about to die.
it's been making gravelly noises for a while now, but since I never really had any problems and defragged regulary I didn't mind it much.
But yesterday I open IE and it takes a looong time to 'load'. The HD was working crazy and it wouldn't open until 5 minutes later, after which everything went smooth again.
That's not THAT bad, but just 5 minutes ago the pc went "krrrrr - peeeeep- krrrrr" and then back to normal. During these few seconds the applications I was running "froze" for a moment too.
So...I guess the HD will die. I'm picking up some hardware for my bro in a day or two, better buy me a HD myself just in case, I guess. If it hasn't already died by then.
But for the record...it does sound like a HD dying, right? Cos I might add that I was downloading some stuff at the time the beep-stuff happened, so the HD was relatively busy.
Let's just say it usually sounds like gravel rolling over an iron plate, or something. I'm pretty certain it's the HD because the noise tops when i'm downloading or when I'm playing a game like GW (constant streaming).
