Like a sick dog...

[Fadetoblack]

...I can sense the end. Of my laptop.

There are things going on in the background. Things are happening slower. Today, my speakers seem to have suddenly borked. They work but are now hissy. Is there a cancer moving slowly through my computer's body? I've done a virus search, ad aware search, spy bot search and a window's defenfer scan. All come up clear. Even now...that background hard drive noise is sounding like a clock ticking...it's doing something, I know it is. But what?

The laptop is only a year old, but is used pretty much every day.

Question is. What do I do now? And are my speakers definitely finished, or could this be a symptom of something else that can be fixed?

[Vic]

Quickly get out of the house Fade, things that tick make me nervous these days.

Alternatively you could get in first :compcrash

[TheOldhamWhisper]

The hard drive is almost certainly failing and you need to get anything you need backed up before it finally packs in. If you have only had it a year, it might be worth having a replacement drive fitted (unless it's one of those 'easy access' ones - if you can't find how to get it out, it isn't) you will probably have to pay someone to do it - £120 including fitting and data transfer is about the going rate.

[Fadetoblack]

Ok...I'll back up my stuff and see what happens from there. Bloody thing.

[Win2Win]

Partition the disk, and install Windows on the new bit.