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Mr. Dude:
I got a used PC that I'm using in my Cabinet and I noticed this problem shortly after I got it.  When it's booting up and loading Windows the hard drive sounds like a friggn' jet is taking off.  It only does this during boot up though and once it gets to Windows and into my FE it sounds perfectly normal for the rest of the time I use it.  It's been doing this for months now and I've just sort of thought nothing of it.  Do you guys think it's going bad on me or could it be just a noisy drive?  Like I said it's been working for months doing this exact same thing.
MnMCaputo:
is your harddrive inside or outside of a pc case?  I've noticed harddrive that are not mounted very securely can make a ton of noise
enchntr:
I would make sure the following is true:

1) Make sure the HDD is installed solidly in the chassis.  It sounds like the spin up routine may be when you notice it more due to the rapid change in RPM.  It could be vibrating against the chassis.

2) Run a good CHKDSK on it to make sure you don't have any bad blocks or sectors (just in case)

3) Look for your HDD Manufacturer's software and see if there is a program for acoustic management...many manufacturers have software which will quiet the drive down, but understand this will slow spindle speed down a bit.  Not much mind you...
Mr. Dude:
Yep, It's mounted inside a PC case.  I will check to see how secure it is when I get home.  I do run scandisk regularly on it and everything has seemed to check out ok each time.
Santoro:
Changes in disk noise are always bad.  If the disk was quiet before and loud now, do a backup, and fast.  It'll be dying in the next few months, IMHO.  
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