[Gllug] repeat soft noise from hard drive

Tue Dec 9 22:32:22 UTC 2008

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +0000, Diana Scott wrote:
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> For reasons I was having difficulties booting up , so I delete the partition and reinstall the software but the installation was stuck in the middle not able to complete and I can hear a soft noise repeatedly from the hard drive. Although I have still access to the data file using ubuntu, the hard drive is now unbootable. 

What sort of noise ?

> How can I fix this hard drive problem ?

Probably by replacing the hard drive.

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