[wplug] Woke up this morning to a noisy machine...hard drives?

[Mike]

I usually use DD to copy the old drive to the new one, then resize my 
partitions with qt parted. Both available off the sysrescuecd from 
www.sysresccd.org <http://www.sysresccd.org>.
 -Mike


 On 4/28/05, Russ Schneider <russ at sugapablo.com> wrote: 
> 
> When I woke up this morning and headed toward my machine, it was running
> much louder than usual.
> 
> My only guess, is that it's the hard drives spinning louder. I shut down
> the machine for a moment and started it back up and it sounded like they
> were having trouble starting their spin up (again, I'm assuming this is a
> hard drive spinning noise as I can't think of what other moving parts are
> in the machine and it doesn't sound like the CD-ROM at all).
> 
> Is this a sign of impending hard drive doom? What would be the best
> course of action?
> 
> Also, if I buy 2 new HDs, is there a way to completely copy everything
> from one HD to another, meaning I could just pop the newly created drivs
> in and the OS and everything would simply work in an identical fashion?
> 
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