Vibration From HDD / Whirling Noise

I have used my 2.4/250 macbook since december and the hard drive is getting louder and louder. The sound is coming from the vibration of the hard drive I guess and the sound is muted when you rest your hand on the lower right corner of the macbook.
Does anyone have a quick fix since apple states this is a normal noise?

It is normal for it to do it starting at 3:00 am but not at 10 or 11 pm. At 3 am it starts its daily maintenance which only should take a minute or less. On the weekend it does weekly maintenance and once a moth it does monthly maintenance, all starting at 3 am.

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I submitted a question last night but wasn't specific enough-- My MacBook Pro is suddenly making a whirling noise when it's on. Sometimes it's not too loud-- but other times it almost sounds like a tweeting-- there is nothing in the DVD/CD drive-- Is this something I should have looked at?

This is not normal. It is better to have it checked. Take it to the Apple Store.
Best.

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hi aLEXrara,
Welcome to Lenovo Forums!
Im not sure if you will agree on me but the HDD should not exhibit a clicking sound, but clicking HDD does not mean that it is bad and it is the HDD's fault.
If the clicking sound start just right after you press the power and the computer starts detecting your HDD,
First verify it is the HDD that is making the sound.
Try Removing the HDD and start the computer again, if there is not clicking sound that definitely is the HDD.
If you have another computer you can try checking the HDD status by plugging it in and using a scan like HDtune.
or Try using Software like HDD regenerator or the like.
If the HDD plugged in to another computer and still show detection problem, I believe it really has to be replaced.
Regards
Solid Cruver
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SSD vs. HDD (especially noise issues)

I'm hoping for some expert feedback on how the new Macbook Pro works with the SSD as compared to the older versions with HDD.
I have a 2006 15" MBP. While gaming or running other video intensive applications the fan runs full bore, full time, and it loud.
I'm planning to upgrade to a new 17" MBP, and am considering drives.
Any experience with the SSD in these new MBP's and whether or not switching from HDD to SSD impacts the frequency the fan is needed?
I've read several reviews and opinions on SSDs. Many say that drives in general (SSD or HDD) produce very low heat compared to processor or video card. Thus, switching drives shouldn't impact overall heat much, or the fan. Others say the exact opposite, noting that switching to SSD cut heat and fan noise.

Any experience with the SSD in these new MBP's and whether or not switching from HDD to SSD impacts the frequency the fan is needed?
No personal experience with SSDs here, but no hard drive can safely operate at any temperature that would cause the fan(s) in a MBP to speed up. The hard drive is typically the coolest internal part of the machine because it is isolated from all the major heat-producing components. It's very unlikely that either a HDD or a SSD would ever affect fan speeds at all in any MBP.

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i have a slow macbook, i ran live disk utilities (from hard drive), turned out I needed to repair disk from a installation disk. Did that, I got the volume (Hard drive) repaired from the installation disk disk. To this point, great!
When I reboot from hdd, then run disk utility, I get the same error message i did b4 repair. I went thru two rounds of this.....
Can anyone help? thanks

Sorry guys, I don't see how to reply to you so I use reply to "me" basically.
So the error I get is "volume header needs minor repair" and then you need to perform repair from the installation disk message.
I did repair not verify from the disk twice. Every time ending in the "the volume had ha been successfully repaired". Then I reboot from the internal disk. Run disk utilities from it, do verify and get the same error message I got before repair. I hope this can shed some light fr you guys. Sorry I didn't include details in the original
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I want to recover my laptop & i need to boot from cd.
I pressed F12 first time & boot from cd but i discoverd that i have put another cd just when i restarted (correctly) i could not boot from cd neither hdd.
When i log in bios hdd was detected but not available in boot priority menu. Just network adapter was there & now i cannot boot from hdd nither cd/dvd. Bios version is 1.30
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> When i log in bios hdd was detected but not available in boot priority menu. Just network adapter was there & now i cannot boot from hdd nither cd/dvd.
Does this means that neither HDD nor CD/DVD drive appears in the BIOS boot option?
Strange what notebook model do you have?
Did you try to set BIOS to default?
If not do this (press F9 and save the changes in BIOS)

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When I tried to recover a fresh Windows from HDD recovery my little son stopped the proccedure by accident.
When I tried to restart I get the message bootmgr is missing. I have a copy from HDD recovery file but din not create a recover DVD.
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There is a method to create bootable USB stick from recovery DVDs or ISO file - http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD4103KB0000R01.htm but I dont think this will help you.
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Dvd won't eject, only repeatedly makes whirling noises as if loading

I don't understand!
I put in a DVD into my laptop to watch. Granted, it's a burned one and so I thought initially the whirling noises of loading were necessary. Until finally I realized it was ongoing, without any stop! Now, the sound repeats if I attempt to eject the DVD, and otherwise it will not come out.
I don't know what to do, help!

In the Apple stores in the US, you need an appointment. If you just show up, they will schedule an appointment for you, but it may be a long wait. Bring your accessories such a power adapter as well.
No charge for an evaluation or minor repair at an Apple store, in warranty or out. These sorts of things are usually repaired free, while you wait, as long as no parts are required. If dis-assembly is needed, the Apple store will not charge you for minor repairs, but Authorized Service providers may charge a small fee.

H330 wont boot windows 7 from hdd or dvd

When booting from HDD the pc recgonises a fault in windows and says insert boot disc and repair computer.
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hi Bradders16,
If your system is booting in a free DOS then the HDD is fine, Beacuse the freedos is technically in the HDD.
One question though.. That WIndows 7 you're trying to bot from is that an installation CD or a HDD with WIndows 7 in it?
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Exit TAB
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I am upgrading from HDD to SSD and would like the step by step direction of how to do it on my 13inch MacBookPro mid 2010. Also, I would like to do a clean install of the OS onto the new SSD, and simply transfer my data(i.e. documents, pictures) from the old HDD to the new SSD(Samsung 500GB)
Any detailed directions would be appreciated. You may send responses directly to my address: ******* Thanks in advance
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Thanks. How do I booth to IR? Won't I need to connect to the internet to be able to booth to Internet Recovery... Please give steps as I am pretty new to this.
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Hi,
Can I upgrade my Q190 (57312246) from HDD to SSD?
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hi filippo,
Yes you can use that SSD Samsung MZ-7TD250BW 840 Series Solid State Drive (SSD) 250 GB Sata 2.5-Inch as the Q190 uses a standard SATA 3.0Gb/s, 2.5" wide HDD as per this pdf data sheet.
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neokenchi
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Problem installing ArchLinux from hdd partition

I have a SATA drive mounted on a VIA Epia motherboard, but no CD drive, which is why I install directly from hdd.
Currently I have Zenwalk running, which only has Lilo (no grub even in the repos!!!). I copied to contents of the install ISO to a new ext3 partition and used the following entry in lilo (taken from this guide):
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But it doesn't boot properly. It says:
::Initramfs Completed - control passing to kinit
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kinit: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
kinit: init not found!
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Anyways, it looks like it's mounting /dev/sda4, but then dies because the init part isn't found. I had a problem with lilo warning me that the init ram image was too large, but then I added the "large-memory" option to lilo.conf and it stopped complaining.
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I found a solution!
Aparently syslinux is very good for booting anything made with isolinux. I think it's pretty universal. So what you do is simply to mount the iso, copy the contents to a fat 16 partition, rename the isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg and then run syslinux on the partition. It's described on this blog:
http://www.elfenbeinturm.cc/2007/08/09/ … kpad-x60s/
/ Benjamin

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A clone of a HDD will have loads of empty blocks, all those blocks would be written to the SSD...
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If you want to go through the "exercise" of creating lauchagents or cron tasks for constructing and easily changing scheduling backups, more power to you. I for one just want to schedule the stuff, possibly change the schedule if need be, and move on to more important things like doing the work that actually needs to be backed up! If you don't believe in scheduling periodic backups, well, that's another story.
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Thank ckuan for your input, but that will stop vibrating the phone on ringtone as well, which I dont want. I want it should only stop while alarm.

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