Asked By
Paul Wright
200 points
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Posted on - 05/31/2011
My laptop is creating a beeping sound on the hard drive. It gets louder and louder everyday so it is kind a scary to hear. I wonder if it can be fixed by setting it to factory defaults or if the hard drive needs to be replaced. My laptop is not under warranty anymore.
Here are the specs of my laptop:
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Toshiba Satellite L455
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Celeron 2.2 GHz
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15.6” LCD
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3GB RAM
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250 GB HDD
I do not think this is normal so please give me any solution. I could not find any helpful tips from my internet research.
Thank you in advance.
Answered By
Vivi_
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#112244
Beeping Sound on Toshiba Laptop
First, make sure that the beeping sound is really coming from your hard drive. There are instances that your CD/DVD drive is the one making noise.
If it's not, and if it is really your hard drive that is creating the noise, then that would be a problem.
A sound in your hard drive is a sign of a near destruction of your hard drive.
Possible causes for this involves mishandling of your hard drive in a hardware perspective, like bumping on your hard drive or handling it recklessly.
Another possible cause is how clean or how dirty the inside of your laptop is. When your laptop is near a dusty place, chances are, those dusts goes inside your laptop and possibly enter your hard disk. Tiny dust will stay in your disk. As you use your hard disk, the insides of it have a mechanical rotation to read and write data. Those tiny dust will interfere the rotation making a friction, thus creating a sound.
The least thing you can do is try to unscrew your laptop and unscrew your hard disk. Remove the cable attaching your hard disk. clean your hard disk and wipe it very softly.
Then place back the cables, and screw it tightly so that it is not anymore movable.
Observe if the problem still exist.
If it is, then you may need to start backup your files in case of emergency disk crash and prepare to buy a new one.
Beeping Sound on Toshiba Laptop
Hi I am James can I will tell you steps to solve your problem first of all:
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Make sure you are using you laptop in a clean environment and not rusty environment. If it is not then clean now by using some air pump or blower.
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Make sure that your laptop is free of software errors. Run a chkdsk on you hard drive to check errors.
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You can also use disk defragmenter to make your disk error free. To make a disk defragmenter go to start and then choose all programs , Accessories and system tools here select the Disk defragmenter. It will check you hard disk from internal errors.
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If the problem is not solved and there is a hardware problem in the disk then you can clean it so no sound come from there.
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Check that any fan in laptop is not making sound it may be sound of some other component.
You can see the inner interface of laptop down below. it may help you to solve you problem:
Beeping Sound on Toshiba Laptop
That beeping sound you hear from your laptop’s hard drive can be fixed. The beep actually sounds more like a “click”. That clicking sound is normally caused by a problem on the surface of the disk caused by bad sectors. Bad sectors can be fixed using disk utility applications by patching the bad sectors and marking them as bad.
Once they are marked, the system will no longer read these sectors therefore removing the clicking sound that you hear every time you use the computer. To fix the bad sectors on the drive, download PC Tools Performance Toolkit. Follow the instructions to download and unpack and then install it. Once installed, start PC Tools then go to “Recovery” tab and click “Repair Drives”.
On the next screen, select your drive on the list then select “Surface Scan” in the options and then click “Start”. If the application has a problem reading the drive, repeat the same steps then check “Perform on reboot”. Restart the computer to begin the checking. Try scanning your drive for like three times. See if this works.
