Webuser Forums: Potential Hard Drive issues

Hi there,

Have a number of questions on my Dell Inspiron laptop.

1. Have clicking coming from inside the laptop itself (top right hand side, near the fan). Not always though, only seems to frequently happen when watching BBC I-Player or 4-OD. Can sometimes be loud and frequent, but other times every 3 minutes or so.

Once got the blue screen of death and ever since the laptop is taking an age to boot-up. I have removed loads of programs I dont use and set my desktop to basic settings. I regularly do "disc clean up" and "de-fragment" too and Im only using 35% of my laptop's capacity - rareky download and have no large files on my laptop. Does this sound like my HD is about to go ?. Havent backed up any data yet so will need to look into that soon.

2. I also have red-lines appearing on my CPU history on task manager.Is this the related ?.

3. Finally, if my HD is gone. Would you recommend going to a small Independant store for this to be fixed or larger PC World type store ?. Budget is tight just now.

Many thanks for your help on this.

Post Extras