It may or may not be related. If you did a normal shutdown and let everything spin down before unplugging it all, I would say there is no connection. If the noise is coming from the rear of the computer I would first suspect a fan. If from the front I would suspect a drive first. It might be as simple as a small piece of paper or plastic wrap got caught up in a fan or the grill covering it. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx> To: "pctechtalk" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:44 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Noisy hard drive >I shut down and pulled plugs last night during an outage of the electricity > and a thunderstorm. When I booted up it is noisy and kind of clicking or > like something hitting the fan. My sons are here and Gary is going to > open > the case and look inside. More later. > Any thoughts on why this happened at this time and what happened? > Sandi > > --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------