{"id":9,"date":"2005-07-10T11:32:23","date_gmt":"2005-07-10T09:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bergs.biz\/?p=9"},"modified":"2006-05-22T13:55:13","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T11:55:13","slug":"of-screaching-hard-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/2005\/07\/10\/of-screaching-hard-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"About screaching hard drives&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a feeling of horror yesterday when I noticed strange noise coming from out of my PC. I immediately knew it was one of the harddrives, and I also knew these sounds didn&#8217;t mean anything good&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The sounds sounded as if the airlock\/headlock mechanism was being activated again and again, the drive made a terrible &#8220;clicking&#8221; noise.<\/p>\n<p>From how my system reacted when I navigated around with the Windows Explorer I feared that the drive that holds my user data had died. 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