Hard drive issues/concerns

[deadly7]

All right, I've got an extremely old hard drive.  Nowadays, whenever I boot up almost any program (Windows Explorer SOMETIMES does it.. More noticable with Photoshop, BW, C4D, SoulSeek) my hard-drive emits an extremely low humming noise.  Now, I know that's bad when it does that.  So my question is this, do you think that it's just because my case is really thin or that it's because my hard-drive is dying?  I'm contemplating backing up everything on E:\ and changing E:\ (~60gb hard-drive) to my new Master and adding a 120 while taking the 4.7gb out, but I don't want to go through installing Windows all over again (and again, because Windows sucks and won't EVER install right the first time).  Ideas? Thoughts? comments?

[Sidoh]

non-normal noise on a hard drive is probably a good indication that it's wearing out.  I'd back up your stuff as soon as you can and probably make the dirve less heavily relied upon.

[ZeroX]

non-normal noise on a hard drive is probably a good indication that it's wearing out.  I'd back up your stuff as soon as you can and probably make the dirve less heavily relied upon.

Yes Mark. Back up your files A.S.A.P. I have had this issues with my old dell. It would keep making that humming noise for almost a day then I turn it off come back to it and it would open XP. After the 4th or 5th time doing this it just gave out and it kept going back to the DoS. Luckly My mom had a warenty with dell and they came right over and replaced it.

[deadly7]

non-normal noise on a hard drive is probably a good indication that it's wearing out.  I'd back up your stuff as soon as you can and probably make the dirve less heavily relied upon.

Haha, it's my Master drive (aka C:\).  I hate life. -.-'  Oh well.