This is much more credible than saying that the laptop would "crash".

During XP era all HDDs already had some builtin error correction. Unless the "song" was affecting the electronics rather than the mechanical parts (which is not impossible but much more unlikely), the only effect the user of the laptop would see is an increase in the correctable read error rate (since it's also highly unlikely that the song would prevent the head from ever reading the correct value 100% of the time), and perhaps a delay due to a retry (which would then always read the correct value, again because of the previous reason).