Huh. My external drive makes these horrible grinding noises after it’s moved around a bit, and I’m assuming it’s something like a wire caught in a fan somewhere inside there, because the disk still works like a charm, even when it’s making those noises.
But it wouldn’t stop making them yesterday, so I was copying all of my stuff off of it in case of massive hard drive failure, and… finally the fan stopped grinding. Now I feel as if I’ve just wasted a lot of space on my internal drives. 😛
I tried contacting the manufacturer to see if my warranty was still valid… I’ll see what they can do…
take it apart!!
well… if it doesn’t void the warranty… and if you saved all the important stuff first, you could probably fix it…