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sidnee_gw

A:drive making noise, no floppy

17 years ago

Hi all,

I am running a Compaq Presario, Model S5300NX, WinXP, SP2.

I use Adaware, Spybot S&D, Belarc Advisor, Malwarebytes-Anti Malware, and Norton Internet Security (a real resource hog). 512mb RAM, with another RAM stick sitting here on my desk, I know it is not doing me any good there. ;o) I have downloaded Avery's software for templates recently. Defragged last week. I also have downloaded Carbonite back up software it is perking right along. PC came with Microsoft Works 7.0. Use IE 7.0, have not updated to whatever it asks me to update. Maybe I should? PC is about 5.5 years old.

As mentioned in the subject, within the past couple of weeks my A drive runs, well it kind of makes a growling sound when I open a new window in IE or close a window in IE.

What is causing this? I cleaned out the inside of the case last week, all cables are snug, blew the dust out of the cabinet, without spinning the fan. Etc.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Sidnee

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