Posted by DAN on October 24, 19100 at 01:31:14:
In Reply to: New Hard Drive installation posted by Shannon on October 23, 19100 at 19:10:27:
IT'S PROB JUST TRYING TO LOCATE THE BOOT FILES,,
TRY FDISKING AND PARTITION AND FORMATTING AND INSTALLING AN OPERATING SYSTEM,,BET IT QUITS,,
BUT SOME HARD DRIVES DO MAKE SOUNDS,,SOME RUN FOREVER AND OTHERS IT'S A SIGN OF A FAILING HD
DAN
: I just bought a new IBM 6.4GB hard drive for my sons computer. I installed the drive and turned on the computer and the hard drive makes a loud clicking noise. I know I have to install an OS on the drive, but is the noise normal for a hard drive that is brand new with no OS loaded on it yet? By the way the computer POST with no problem, it's just the hard drive noise that I'm concerned with.