HHD Making odd Noises

[appleweekly5]

Hello all, recently my computer's HHD has been making weird noises. I am not all to sure when the problem began, my dad woke me last night when there was an odd grunting, growling, chirping noise being created my my machine. I promptly shut the computer down. This evening I put my ear by the HHD as I was booting it up, sure enough, it was the HHD. Using a stethoscope I more carefully listened to it. The noise through the stethoscope was ear-splitting. Now, the computer is fully off. Do you think I should replace the HHD, or should I not worry about that noise? appleweekly5

EDIT
The HHD I am running is the 1tb Segate from the buyer's guide. Just thought I should add that in.

 

[trs96]

Dr. Weekly,
You're urgently needed in the computer OR.

Seriously, make sure you've backed up that hard drive cause it's giving you
warning signs that it's about to fail at any moment. Buy a new one and
then restore from your backup you've made. Good luck on the operation

 

[appleweekly5]

Dr. Weekly,
You're urgently needed in the computer OR.

Seriously, make sure you've backed up that hard drive cause it's giving you
warning signs that it's about to fail at any moment. Buy a new one and
then restore from your backup you've made. Good luck on the operation

Now, what to clone it to, the HHD that needs to operated on is "reconditioned" (as stated on label).
I am not sure what to buy. My parents run a WD 1TB Blue drive, is it hackintosh compatible. I don't want another "reconditioned" drive. I am planning to switch to a SSD and HHD combination soon anyway. Dr. Weekly

 

[trs96]

Now, what to clone it to, the HHD that needs to operated on is "reconditioned" (as stated on label).
I am not sure what to buy. My parents run a WD 1TB Blue drive, is it hackintosh compatible. I don't want another "reconditioned" drive. I am planning to switch to a SSD and HHD combination soon anyway. Dr. Weekly

Hope that refurb had some kind of warranty on it. If your parents drive has enough room
on it you could make a clone on that drive. You really should have some kind of backup
drive for your own system though. All mechanical drives fail, some much sooner than
others. Backups are essential ! Get a 120 GB SSD and also a WD blue (New) and put the
OS on the SSD, use the WD for storage. May the surgery be a success.

 

[appleweekly5]

Hope that refurb had some kind of warranty on it. If your parents drive has enough room
on it you could make a clone on that drive. You really should have some kind of backup
drive for your own system though. All mechanical drives fail, some much sooner than
others. Backups are essential ! Get a 120 GB SSD and also a WD blue (New) and put the
OS on the SSD, use the WD for storage. May the surgery be a success.

How do I make the apps go on the HDD? appleweekly5

 

[trs96]

How do I make the apps go on the HDD? appleweekly5

Honestly, I would just backup the documents folder, pictures, music etc. and then do a clean
reinstall of OS X. Then put all that data back after the clean install where you want it. All the
other Apple Apps can just be re-downloaded from the MAS.

 

[appleweekly5]

Honestly, I would just backup the documents folder, pictures, music etc. and then do a clean
reinstall of OS X. Then put all that data back after the clean install where you want it. All the
other Apple Apps can just be re-downloaded from the MAS.

I have created several Time Machine backups on a external HDD, I will restore the fresh install from them. Or I will use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my OSX install partition to the the new SSD. I have several options, which is best, I am typing this while waiting for the UniBeast installer to complete, the computer will boot. appleweekly5

 

[Mari0]

CCC will do a full restore (bit-by-bit copy) so you will have a perfect copy. TM backup will reinstall only the most important parts (i.e. documents).