T61P hard drive making crunching noise

[daphatgrant]

Like title says, I am doing some cleanup on my laptop by deleting some files I don't need / use and backing what I do want up to an external. I finish this and am using Syncplicity to transfer a couple new files over to the T61P from my desktop when all of the sudden I hear this awful grinding crunching noise coming from the lower left corner of my laptop, right where the main HDD is, it did this for about 6 seconds and then stopped .

It still appears to be working, I am downloading Hitachi's diagnostic tools right now to run on it.

[Brad]

Sorry to hear of the unexpected noises.

Great idea to fun the DFT.

On my T61 the hard drive is in the front right corner.

Brad

[richk]

This may be obvious, but regardless of whatever you normally do to backup your data, NOW is the time, before running diagnostics to stress the drive.