Hard Drive Making Strange Noises

[tlcwaterfall]

I have a 1.5 tb harddrive placed in a media player and bought both in June this year.

Last couple of nights when I turn media player on I hear some strange noises coming from media player. Noise does not happen all the time so when I hear noise I turn player off and then turn on again after a few minutes. Sometimes noise happens again and at other times does not occur.

Can anyone please give me an idea of what is going on? I do not have the expertise to diagnose the problem and really do not want to take harddrive to shop as it has some sensitive data on it. I am assuming harddrive is giving me a warning that it is about to die but would like some expert advice if possible please.

I do have the majority of data backed up on another harddrive but not all.

[ballzafire]

What brand?

[niveknedwob]

"I have a 1.5 tb harddrive placed in a media player" - what does that mean ?

Help us to help you - is it an internal or external drive ?

"Last couple of nights when I turn media player on I hear some strange noises coming from media player. Noise does not happen all the time so when I hear noise I turn player off and then turn on again after a few minutes. Sometimes noise happens again and at other times does not occur"

Perhaps you have other websites with sound playing through Media Player, hence the 'noise'.

Is your 1.5 TB disk for purely music and video ? Do you have any cr@p like ACDSee loaded on your PC ?

Whatever - we can get it under control.

[tlcwaterfall]

"I have a 1.5 tb harddrive placed in a media player" - what does that mean ?

Help us to help you - is it an internal or external drive ?

"Last couple of nights when I turn media player on I hear some strange noises coming from media player. Noise does not happen all the time so when I hear noise I turn player off and then turn on again after a few minutes. Sometimes noise happens again and at other times does not occur"

Perhaps you have other websites with sound playing through Media Player, hence the 'noise'.

Is your 1.5 TB disk for purely music and video ? Do you have any cr@p like ACDSee loaded on your PC ?

Whatever - we can get it under control.

Sata hard drive which is placed inside media player but can be removed if necessary. I have videos, music and photos stored on hard drive. Hard drive was bought at Tukcom Pattaya.

I do not have media player connected to pc only the television.

[Beggar]

Wherever the noise comes from. A HD can die every moment. So it is always good to have a backup disk. Everything else is gambling. When the data are gone it is too late to think about this.

[Bartman]

Does the Media Player have a cooling fan installed? Could just be this making noise.

I have a playtime with a cooling fan. Makes noise if the unit in Hoizontal but not if its vertical.

What brand is the HardDisc?

I susspect it is the player thats the problem.