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

[William N. Powell]

Russ Schneider 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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Bill