Is my hard drive bad?

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Ok i have this western dig hard drive that i put win xp on in jan. and i have not used it at all since then. I go to use it now and it makes a sound like it reads the disk but only louder and more high piched. ALso the pc does not read that it is conected to the pc. Is it bad ?
 
if its under warranty the yes.
I would recommend running WD's drive diagnostic utility though, or attempting to.
 
Definitely run a diagnostin utility on it...and check disk administrator to see if XP has any status displayed on the drive (when you installed it, I take it you formatted it successfully etc?)
 
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