Hard Drive Spinning Loud..Or fan???

[vaderpro]

After playing BF2 Demo my hard-drive is racing like a CD drive.....I thought it was a CD going but pulled both out and still the loud spinning/noise... It eventually is slowing/ quieting down as the minutes go by after quitting the game.
That game seems to demand alot from my system, but is this a sign that my hard-drive is going???
It wouldn't be the fan getting louder would it??? Does the fan run faster on my videocard or mboard when things heat up?
Thanks...it was really loud.

 

[SteveGTA]

i wouldnt worry about it enless it sounds clanky lol.

BF2 demo is pretty demanding though.

 

[vaderpro]

No clanks, had that once...now paranoid..

 

[SteveGTA]

western digital has a hard drive test "diagnosis" thing or something on their site. you may want to run that.

 

[vaderpro]

Ok thanks

 

[Apokalipse]

open up the case and listen to where the noise is coming from. it might be a fan controlled by temperature, which speeds up as it heats up under load