Help! Hard drive problems.

[kithkanan]

I've got a 2.5 year old Maxtor 6.4 GB hard drive in my system right now. It has always worked fine up until a day ago, when it started making odd noises (humming louder than usual, change in pitch). However, when I run Norton System Check and Disk Doctor it says everything is fine. Is this noise anything to be concerned about? Should I toss this hard drive and get a new one?

 

[Snoop]

Open scandisk, select the thorough option, it will take a few hours but should let you know if their is a problem.

 

[bacillus]

get your stuff backed up is my advice!
that drive is probably dying.

 

[Yzzim]

definitly get your stuff backed up ASAP then you can either run a thorough scandisk or download one of the diagnostics utilities from maxtor's site.