Check Disk Health•2 minutes
Listen for Unusual Sounds
Required
Physical Disk Assessment
First, let's check for physical damage:
Listen carefully to your hard drive:
🔊 Normal sounds:
- Gentle whirring (spinning)
- Soft clicks during access
❌ Warning sounds:
- Clicking/ticking repeatedly → Head failure
- Grinding/scraping → Mechanical damage
- Beeping → Spindle motor failure
- No sound at all → Power or connection issue
If you hear bad sounds:
- Back up data immediately!
- Avoid using the drive
- Consider professional data recovery
- DO NOT continue with software fixes
Sounds normal? Continue to next step.