I wouldn't like to hear any of these noises, some of them sound awfull!
http://www.hitachigst.com/hddt/knowtree.ns...6256756006e340c?
This is one of those occasions when you don't want to listen in case it's a familiar sound, but you can't resist.
Made my teeth hurt.
It somehow reminds me of pinball sounds gone bad! But my hard drive is a lamb when it dies... or whatever a lamb sounds when it's killed.
Number 3 was funny...number 4 sounded fake. Why? Because I have a sharpening/grind stone in my garage, and it sounds like that when you sharpen something like a lawn mower blade.
AJ
here are some more nasty sounds relating to disk problems...
http://www.recovery-bg.com/symptoms-hard-d...ta-recovery.php