Noisy Hard drive, dieing machine?

I have an Acer Aspire one, running Xp fully Updated OS, I have been and IExplore user version 8.0.6001.18702 with a chrome plug in. Added Chrome and Foxfire as back up browsers...

Have done dfrag and clean up

Virus/firewall used is Zone Alarm free version.Active realtime scanner running.

Used DirectX Diagnostic tool through all the steps, testing every option...no problems.

Used most recent version of Microsoft Safety Scanner. No Malware or viruses found.

The machine is connected wirelessly to a Brother printer and internet gateway. Often connected via USB to canon scanner, canoscan (LIDE), an external WD hard drive, where most data is stored, ms rollerball, Gigaware key board, several flashdrives, Speakers

plugged into earphonr jack.

Hard drive went silent while writting this, it tends to get noisy the more I do, at times...it went about a month since the last event of long term noise issues.

I use the machine heavy....Facebook games, some in iE8, some in Foxfire, some in Chrome...I find more ready function in iE8 then the others...I keep the plugin to a minimon in all, and the are fast when the drive is quiet...the noise slows all operations

down. During noise I cut down on YouTube and other online video...prefered player is Windows Media Player with Realplayer and Quicktime as back ups. I have a 'Deskmate' Charactor that runs most of time, program no longer supported, but it runs good, I have

shut it down during noise events.

Noise came back As I opened a file folder to make a rtf of report...saved and closed....noise stops.....

I think machine's hard drive will die.....in how much time?

Given it does, I would like to replace the hard drive and reinstall the OS, not sure how well this machine would work with the current version of Windows, One can find general specs on the Acer Aspire One, can a person who knows "8" well, maybe an MS person

comment on wheather * can handle the specs of my AA One....I will continue to use the machine as long as I can....I do want to get a new graphics machine with all the bells an whisles, but would like to keep a usable machine working.

Any thing else I can check on this machine....with out adding scareware?

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