Windows 10: Noisy Hard disk

My Dell laptop has a noisy hard disk. I have tried Dell Diagnostic but the results are not helping. I have a new laptop on order, with a SSD, Solid State Drive.I have been waiting for my old hard disk to die, but it is still running, creating "melodies" from disk access.It seems like Windows 11 has too many background process moving data around. The Defrag utility is the first suspect.Removing unnecessary programs seems to help.What do you think?

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External Hard disk contents are not visible.

Hi Pranoti,

For us to narrow down your concern with your external hard disk, we would like to know the following:

• Were there any changes made on your computer prior to the issue (e.g., updates, software installation)?
• To make sure that we have not missed on anything, what troubleshooting steps have you done so far?
• Do you hear any clicking sound when connecting your hard disk?

In the meantime, we suggest that you update all your device driver.

We look forward to your response.

 

Hard disk partition not showing up.

Hi Muhammad,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



This can happen if the Hard-disk drivers are not up-to date. I would suggest you to update the hard disk drivers first. To update the drivers, please follow the steps mentioned below:

1. Open Device manager.
   
2. Then Expand “Disk drives”.
   
3. Then Right click on the Hard-disk listed under this category.
   
4. Then click on Update drivers.
   
5. Alternatively you can also try to update the drivers from manufacturer’s website.
   

Once the hard-disk drivers are updated, you will need to allocate the last partition (it is not allocated according to the screenshot) and you will be able to view the partition.



Also note that sometimes the hard disk partitions/drives might be hidden in This PC or My Computer window due to a Registry key. If a DWORD with the name NoViewOnDrive or NoDrives is present under following key in Registry Editor:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies\Explorer

Delete the DWORD and your drives will become visible in My Computer window.



Hope this helps.

 

Noisy hard drives

Hello I have 2 hard drives. One of them is very noisy when powered on. I can feel my desk vibrating when its reading. (I think its dying) Its around 6 years old, so Im expecting it to stop working soon. My other drive is also abit noisy but not as bad as the first one. (The other drive is 3 years old) But anyway, is it any way to manually turn off hard drives without unplugging them? Power saving helps, but they always seem to turn on again after a while. It it any software on the internet that can put hard drives into a power saving mode that it cant wake up from unless I want it to?