Hard Drive Failing??!

Okay so just now my hard drive has started making some weird squeaky noise every few minutes under load, it's very quick and sounds similar to a sneaker on a gym floor.

I did an HD Tune benchmark, and lo and behold the statistics were crappy, see the attached image. I've done a few different benchmarks and all of them look similar.

It's a 100GB 7200RPM drive, no other disk intensive processes are running. I've taken decent care of it, temps no higher than about 45C ever. Usually it runs pretty cool.

What's going on? I've backed up my data and I'm a little panicky now because I need this laptop for college.

Edit: The disk is fully defragged, too.

 

what kind of laptop is it... lol....

 

Man, that`s the weirdest HD tune result I`ve ever seen. Contact your reseller ASAP and tell them about this problem.
They`ll probably cross ship you a new one if this one is dying, which by the looks of it is...

Also, you might want to consider that something is stressing it for some reason, either some program or the LAN. Check the activity with no LAN connection and check the applications running in the background. Turn some of them off and redo the HD test. If all these prove inefficient, then it`s definitely dying.

 

It's a Sager NP2090. T7300 @ 2GHz, 2GB RAM, Vista 32, 100GB 7200RPM HDD, 8600M GT, a/g/n Wireless

I checked with no wireless/LAN connections and those don't seem to be affecting it. I deleted a 4GB movie and it seemed to get a bit better, perhaps its the content of the drive? But it's defragged and has 30GB of free space...

In any case when you say contact the reseller, you mean the place I bought it from, not Sager, correct? (PowerNotebooks for me)

 

Yep, the place where you bought it. Good thing you chose Powernotebooks, they have pretty good custommer support.

 

Thanks, eleron. I'll get this taken care of.

 

Do you have any CPU intensive programs in the background? Try to do the test without any 3rd party software running.

 

You should definitely call PowerNotebooks support. Sager should be able to make arrangements to get you a new drive, or an RMA to look at the whole laptop if they suspect something else is the culprit.

 

I just remembered that whenever I download using Bitcomet it literally chokes my hdd...so a download manager might do this also..