Hard Drive making a slight ticking/schreeching sound

[adelhard]

Hi there,

I have a latop that is quite old now, and it has as far as I know a Hitachi 80 gigabyte hard drive. When I start using the laptop it starts fine loads everything in vista, and after about 10 to 15 minutes use, the hard drive starts making a screeching or ticking type sound, it lasts for about 30 seconds then the hard drive turns off, and the screen and whatever i was doing freezes. Just before the HDD turns off, it makes a louder click sound like if you turn of the laptop whilst its still running.

Anyway one of my friends said it could be a power problem but the laptop is out of warranty so I don;t know what to do?

Do any of you guys know how to fix it?

[riskyme]

Yes it could be the problem with your power supply. Either the capacitors on your motherboard have become weak or there is some problem with your power supply... I can also be a problem with your hard disk so try formatting it or attempt to recover the bad sectors in it, if any...