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Why does my external Hard Drive keep squealing?

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As soon as I plug in the USB cable to my desktop's USB port, and the external Hard Drive starts spinning, it keeps scritching. Please listen to my audio file.

I bought it in 2015, but I plug it in just 4 times a year to backup files. It appears normally in Windows Explorer.

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Depends on type of HD (1 comment)
Depends on type of HD
Lundin‭ wrote almost 3 years ago
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If this is a classical HD based on magnetic discs and a reader head and this is a new noise you haven't heard before, then I'd say it's about to break. If it always sounded like this, it's unlikely a problem. If it's a modern flash-based HD it shouldn't be making any sounds at all.