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Lee Smith Posted on Feb 17, 2014
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It sounds like the harddrive is making a constant noise. it stops when there is I leave dont use it for a few minuets.

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You can check the hard drive using Norton Utilities software. There is a trial version (free). Most of the modern laptop hard drives do not make a loud noise (it make a noise when it writes something). If your laptop uses an indexing software, then yes, the hard drive will make a noise all the time.

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