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Ashraf has wriiten a fine review in the main blog – " Free O&O DriveLED 3! This app is an early warning system if hard disk is heading for a crash. This app believes in scanning & forewarning us. It is a fine app, I've downloaded it & am getting acquainted with it.

I am providing a html link to a website which will tell you the 6 different types of sounds a crashing hard disk makes. Trust me, I neither write macabre short stories nor am I a fan of Frankenstein  

This find I thought is pretty much in a class of its own, is indescribable & has a utilitarian value for software professionals & all computer users – no more no less.

The html link is http://www.thenetworkadministr…..ddrive.htm

I quote:-

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6 Sounds Made by a Crashing Hard drive

Question?:

My hard drive is experiencing some strange noises, and I am unsure if the drive

is failing. How can I determine if the noises are due to a failing hard drive? Click

Here to listen to 6 sound waves made by six different crashed hard drives.

Low Spindle Motor

Head stuck to Platter

Head damage 1

Head damage 2

Head damage 3

Head damage 4

A Duck Quacking

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Yikes. It sounds scarier than the "Undertaker's gong sound in WWF.

Ramesh

Ozzie said:

Yeah, kinda hard to categorise the sound an old desktop comp of mine once made right before it shuffled off the not-so-mortal coil, but it was vaguely reminiscent of a flatulent moose. Some weird long honking sound. You may think I jest, but I kid you not … it was seriously bizarre. And to cap it off, my motherboard caught on fire. I mean actually on fire … flames were coming out the side. I never knew I could hoist a computer so far as I did that day as I ran with it out to the back steps and hurled it into the yard lest the whole house go up. I took the burnt-out remains to a computer repair place, but they were stumped as to what happened. So the mystery of my flatulent burning comp remains just that: a mystery.

Hi sis!

So the motherboard caught fire huh? That sure was one "bored" mother – she just flared up. Or was it just an old flame?

I haven't heard a flatulent moose yet. Therefore I can hardly comment on that. I wouldn't mind meeting a moose. But were it to be flatulent during the meeting I'd choose to be seated as far away from it…………………… as possible

Just joking sis!

Ramesh