[SOLVED] sound effect coming from my hard drive

[pafcaf]

I've started having a strange issue on my Gateway PC when I save or open word and excel documents. It's intermittent, so I haven't been able to recreate the sound for anyone else. Basically, when I click on a file to open or click the save icon in my ribbon (Word, Excel 2007) the hard drive will emit a low "bloop" sound almost like a water drop sound effect. It is not coming through the speakers, it's coming from the hard drive itself. It seems to only happen after I've had the document open for a period of time and made significant changes. Does this sound like spyware?

 

[jadenwoolworth]

so, spyware won't physically affect your computer, and your hard drive making that sound is a physical issue. A lot of PCs, especially older ones will have hard drives that make noise when the start to spin. The reason it doesn't happen every time, is because the drive was probably already spinning when you tried to recreate the sound.

just to be clear, hard drives have no speakers on them, so the disk is the only logical explanation for the sound. I have computers that make a similar sound when powered on.

 

[pafcaf]

It is a quite old PC.

Thanks, I thought someone was monitoring my files