New Harddrive?

[Raven]

you should be able to swap the hard drive out for solid state drive
that'll run much much better and 100% silent

[leptar]

If you don't have the Win7 disk.

Just download the version you currently have. Don't "upgrade or downgrade" as your key code will not work..
The links are to Microsoft and are downloaded via digital river.. These are ISO files so you can burn them to DVD then install.

Don't do a restore.. Restores suck and put back so much unneeded bloatware.

You need to make sure the settings for your drive in bios should be ACHI.

Do a fresh install so you don't have to fart around with registry settings... Change your power options to NEVER shut off harddrive.

Good luck..

[iamskippy]

Originally Posted by Raven

you should be able to swap the hard drive out for solid state drive
that'll run much much better and 100% silent

Silent, faster, cooler...Win
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[bloocrab]

Hard-drives are a piece of cake to replace.
3 screws and you're done.
Is the noise you're hearing a whirring noise...or clankity, cluck?
Could just be your internal fan if it's clankity, cluck.
If it's whirrring or a pitched noise...HDD

Don't fear the job, plenty of help on here.

Good Luck