Hard Drive Click / Clack / Parking every minute (hear for yourself)

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• Hard drive clicking noise Satellite P100-240

  Hello
  I bought this laptop a few months ago. Recently the hard drive was made of the sounds click thud when left idle or when it is used. Once there it usually starts guard going. Sound louder than normal sounds of hard drive activity and occurs every few seconds. Everyone knows about this problem? It is likely is a sign of mechanical defects and possible disk crash, or is this a normal phenomenon? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
  Thank you
  Daniel

  Well, maybe it's a beginning of the end of s.
  Be careful and always make backups!
  My hard drive was cut there's dead several months! I noticed a low crackling inside. After restarting again the BIOS didn't recognize the HARD drive! It was an accident of the head!

  So, as mentioned above, be careful!

• I'm getting a noise from my hard drive click

  Original title: I'm a my hard drive clicking noise and have to wipe and reinstall Windows. How can I do this?

  Hi my name is Brendan Dwyer, and I'm the kind again on this Forum

  I have a laptop with pre-installed en OEM Windows Vista Home Basic-we

  My laptop brand and model is a

  Fujitsu Siemens

  ESPRIMO Mobile V5535

  And I think that I have to wipe my hard drive and install OEM Windows 7 it's because my HD keeps clicking on so I think I have to wipe completely with DBAN

  Hello

  If you get a 'click' sound in your hard drive, I would suggest that you test and replace if necessary,

  http://www.Seagate.com/WW/v/index.jsp?locale=en-us&name=SeaTools&vgnextoid=720bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

  If you do not have to replace it, there should be a recovery partition on this drive to make recovery disks and use to reinstall Vista.

  Contact the manufacturer to find out the exaxct of keys to press start to start the factory of this partition recovery.

  For a small price, you can also buy a set of recovery of them discs to reinstall Vista.

  See you soon.

• AppData\Local\Apple Inc\CloudKit\iCloud Photos\MMCS folder uses more 250 GB on my hard drive, I can delete, what is this for? consultation offline? If so I don't need it

  AppData\Local\Apple Inc\CloudKit\iCloud Photos\MMCS folder uses more 250 GB on my hard drive, I can delete, what is this for? consultation offline? If so I don't need it

  I had the same problem and it has chewed all my disk space. I have a 64-bit Windows 10 - disk 250 gig. I deleted all these files except those with current date and released the 150 gig. Much better to delete these temporary files to risking a crash operating system running out of disk space.

• Hard drive clicking - Satellite-U940-100

  Hi people,

  I bought a new computer laptop just 5 days back and I hear a noise clicking a few seconds apart. Here's what it looks like: [https://soundcloud.com/user506186265/toshiba-u940-clicking-sound]

  Can someone help me diagnose the sound, what is it and why it is happening?

  In this case every hour and is troubling in a quiet environment. Because I intend to keep the laptop for more than a few years I'm afraid that the hard drive won't be able to very soon. If I can't solve this properly before November 20, 2013 I intend to return to the where I bought the laptop.

  Thanks for your help!

  I agree with Timox
  The sound seems to create a HARD drive head during the read/write of data from the hard drive.
  This is nothing unusual. As mentioned by Timox; some HARD drive are stronger, some are quieter.

  In case you want to change the HARD drive in the future: I recommend you choose an SSD.
  It s much faster and SSD drives don't produce sounds

• HARD drive click after update Bios on Satellite A100

  Hello.
  I just did a bios update for my Satellite A100 PSAA9, and after that I started to hear a few clicks on the hard drive, from time to time. They appear very often, but I would like to know why they started!

  The bios update was published in 26/11/2007.
  Does anyone have the same problem?

  Thank you.

  I put t think it has something to do with the BIOS update.
  I put t don't know how old you HDD is but maybe that click concern only the HARD drive hardware problem

  There are several times in my HARD disk created similar clique and sounds but it s runs great
  I didn't noticed any hardware problem however, we cannot exclude a hardware problem and therefore, you should back up important data to prevent the files from damage.

  Best regards

• Hard drive clicking on a program with slow loading

  I have a HP Pavilion ze2000 running Windows XP. When I first put it, I hear a clicking of the area of the hard drive noise. When this happens, the machine boots very slowly. Once it is completely initialized, it works fine until I open a new program. The program is loading very slowly, but works great once it is. When I restart the machine, it will work normally.

  He began to arrive about three weeks ago. Whenever I start the machine cold, she clicks and runs slow. After that I have it reboot, it works normally.

  I ran the BIOS hard drive test and Windows disk check on the HDD and it passes all the tests. The hard drive is a Samsung HM160HC. He was in the machine, since I bought it used, but only started clicking in the las three weeks.

  Today, I reloaded the operating system of the ERD. All BONES and McAfee updates management. Then put it in my backpack, took to work, plugged in and turned on. He still had the rattling noise until I rebooted.

  I've seen a few posts who accuse the noise from the CPU fan. If that were the case, why would programs load slowly but operate normally? And how you would test it?

  I don't want to replace the HD if I do not, but what can I do else?

  Thanks for any advice,

  Mike in Indy

  Final solution: I replaced the HM160HC drive with a new same model. Reloaded the OS from scratch and it works perfectly for 3 days so far.

  The moral? Clicking on hard drives are bad, and you should count yourself lucky if they work long enough for you to backup your data before it is replaced.

• Satellite A300-1IW: HARD drive access light blinks every second

  Hello everyone, and sorry for the English, I'm french :)

  I bought a Satellite A300-1IW a few days and suddenly (don't remember exactly when) early light access HARD drive blinks every second and it continues even after several reboots!

  It does so only with Vista; I checked the disk with 'diskmon' activity and I saw that even if it was * no. * disk * written * or * reading * the led continues flashing, so I think that it is not bound to certain services of vista (superfetch, indexing...)

  A similar problem, I saw on a Microsoft support, but it was under windows 98 and with old motherborads!
  See: link: [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138598]

  So it seems that it is related to level Vista SCSI or DVD...

  I have now is not critical, but it's annoying to have this led flashes all the time

  You have an idea? Don't you think that it could be related to bios? I want to be sure before touching it, because it is always tricky.

  Thanks for your help

  In my opinion, nobody can offer no comment because you already gave the answer. There is nothing unusual and certainly no reason to panic.

  What do about it? What you want to do? Sorry, but this is a really stupid question. I can just offer you a stupid answer. ;) Take black tape and curl up the LED. ;)

• Equium L40 - 10Z hard drive click on stronger than habit/expected

  Is a hard drive stronger by clicking on a fault? It's not weird scraping noises or anything like that, just the regular clicks, but they are stronger that I'm used to! I would say a good 2 - 3 times stronger than my old laptop. I should talk with the store (I bought only yesterday) or it is part of the design? Thank you.

  Hi Adam

  I m 3 notebooks different owner by clicking similar appears on one of my notebooks.
  It of certainly one from HARD drive, it seems for a year, but the HARD drive and the laptop works properly without any escapes

  But I have already noticed a head-crash HARD drive on my other computer. So you should be careful
  Don t forget to backup your important data, because this could be a beginning of the end of the HDD notebooks!

  Good bye

• Z585 HARD drive clicking 16 times at startup

  I'm having a problem with my laptop IdeaPad Z585.

  When I boot it, it clicks exactly 16 times before that it goes to a black screen. He did the same thing when I try a restart, but it will eventually restart normally after 10 attempts.

  PrivateNomad wrote:

  I'm having a problem with my laptop IdeaPad Z585.

  When I boot it, it clicks exactly 16 times before that it goes to a black screen. He did the same thing when I try a restart, but it will eventually restart normally after 10 attempts.

  It seems that the hard drive is about to quit smoking. The click is a sign. Better make a backup in case he decides to stop working.

• MacBookPro 13 "hard drive, click sound

  Hello

  I use MacBookPro 13 "middle of model year 2012. Yesterday, it fell about 1' height. After this fall, that I often "pinging" from the hard drive. I searched on google and found that this is due to the activation of sudden motion Sensor (SMS). This is a safety feature.

  But the sound is irritating. I showed it to the Apple Service centre. They did an MRI and told me that all the hardware parts are 'OK '. They did not have a solution for this. How can I stop that noise now and always keep the sensor activated

  Any help in this matter would be highly appreciated.

  Thank you

  Ritesh

  I have the same PBM. I recently made a Crucial memory OCZ Trion 150-series SSD and 16 GB upgrade.

  Best thing I've ever done to this PBM, certainly.

  Cost me about $115 with parts purchased from Amazon.com

  I know this is off topic, but you should really consider a SSD upgrade. It will solve many of your problems.

  And your computing experience will be a pleasure and not pain.

  Your MBP will happen much, much better as a comparison of day and night.

• Using the HARD drive of a Tecra A4 as a for another laptop external HARD drive.

  I have a Toshiba Tecra A4. I want to use the HARD drive as a second hard drive to another laptop, but it seemed to me that the HDD in Tecra A4 has a special bond that does not fit in a standard externel HDD-Bay. Anyone know how I can use the HARD Tecra A4 drive as an external HARD drive?

  Subquestion: is it not possible to use a 2.5 "HARD drive normal in a Toshiba Tecra A4?

  Hello

  AFAIK Tecra A4 has 2.5 inch HDD inside. But the HARD drive has another connector HARD drive that you can remove. The HARD drive is placed in the HARD drive chassis and fixed with four screws. Remove the screw and the connector. Be very carefully and take it easy.

  After that you can use in other laptops.

• My external hard drive (Time Machine) has not been saved for a month.

  A month ago I left town for a week. After coming back, I noticed my icon time machine backup constantly Menu bar, but I paid no attention until three days when he tried to save in vain, I noticed. I tried to disconnect and reconnect my external hard drive, but it still does not work. Nothing has really changed any other times where I was out of town and time machines worked perfectly well. The only thought I have, which could prevent the machine from time to work, is that I've been reluctant to do the software update. I heard terrible things about the captain, especially when it comes to iPhoto, and iPhoto is my main thing on my computer... so I had voluntarily decided to not update. Do you think that this is what is causing the problem? Thank you very much.

  You him have not said if you did all troubleshooting. Tell us what troubleshooting have you tried, and then we can give you an idea.

  Furthermore, El Capitan is very stable. However, you should not pass until your system is stable.

• To replace the DVD drive with the second HARD drive on the Probook 6570 b as for the BIOS setting

  After you replace CD/DVD player with HARD drive in the Bay of correspondence, I had a problem with the BIOS. After starting, I received a message 'there is not a boot manager' and CTRL + ALT + DELETE. So is that posible F9 and start to use Option manually hard. Please tell me what I should do to fix this problem.

  Thanks for your advice. I remember what I had to do in the BIOS. I had to choose the Boot Option and excludes "Boot from Bay upgrade". That's all. Of course subsequently followed "save all".

  in respect

  Military

• How do I trouble shoot hard drive and buy more memory and recovery for a HP Probook 4520 s disc?

  Well, my new probook was a month, a few days back, I could not boot my laptop which is a Win7 Home Premium 32-bit, after launching the diagnostic system and memory test, my laptop started kicking and I can use it again, but too slow to be a month ago. Here is the screenshot taken after the full system Diagnostics.

  [IMG] http://I52.Tinypic.com/2sbjvah.jpg [line]

  The hard drive starts to fail? Will I get a replacement warranty if it failed?

  Another problem is that I deleted the recovery partition without creating the recovery disc (stupid me, never thought of that while trying to repartition), HP could provide me with the recovery disk free of costs cause I think I already buy the preload windows 7 when buying?

  Last but not least, 2 GB of RAM is a little small, I would like to upgrade to 4 GB (2 GB x 2) can I do it myself or does it need a technician HP to do?

  Hello

  Your screenshot it looks like your hard drive is defective and must be replaced - it is certainly covered by the warranty, so you will need to contact HP.  Backup all your files as soon as you can as readers may fail completely very sudden.

  If you live in the United States, contact HP here.

  If you are in another part of the world, begin here.

  You can also request a set of discs of recovery at the same time - I think they are about $10, but you can get the tax lifted; It can't hurt to try!

  You can easily add the memory yourself.  The process is shown starting on Page 60 of your & Maintenance Guide.

  Kind regards

  DP - K