[Sussex] Odd noise on laptop - hard drive?

[Rupert Swarbrick]

Andrew Guard wrote:
> Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
> 
>> Very strange high-pitched whirring sound from hard disk (I think) - this
>> is irritating, but strangely when I do `modprobe uhci-hcd`, the whirring
>> noise suddenly stops.
>>
>> Any idea on what might be causing it? The laptop's a Dell Inspiron 500m
>> (and I can't find anything with Google)
> 
> 
> Sounds like your HD is on it last legs.  Back up the data and find out
> if still under warranty.  If not get new HD ASAP, it might die today
> might die next week or 8 weeks time but it will die and when it happens
> you will not be able to access the drive with out pay £XXXX cash.
> 
Hmmm...

I admit that the assumption that it was the hard-drive was just that -
an assumption.

I think that the hard disk is probably not dying, as it has been making
this noise since I bought the laptop new 6 months ago (I just haven't
been particularly irritated by it before)

I still can't work out what loading the usb module has to do with it either.

Rupert

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