Desktop hard disk making annoying noise
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Posted on - 05/26/2011
My hard disk is making some annoying noises, approximately 30 noise occurrences in one minute. The problem started when a friend came with an external hard disk, 250 GB. He wanted to copy some documents from my computer. I plugged in the drive of my computer in one of the USB ports and transferred the data.
As soon as I removed his hard disk from my PC, my hard disk started to make some annoying noises. I carried out a full system scan and found an MSBB Spyware, which I removed using Ad-Ware. This never solved the problem. The noises were still there. Later on, I noticed that whenever I pressed ctrl+ shift + delete keys to start up the task manager, the noises would go away. But the noise will return again when I press the cancel key to exit the task manager.
During an Antivirus scan there was a message saying “systray, zonealaram, avg?” displayed by the windows explorer dialog box. My questions are:
1. Could the virus be the reason why the hard disk is producing the noises?
2. Is there any software to fix this?
3. What can I do to avoid a similar occurrence?
I'll be very thankful for any help. Have a great day everyone!