Hard drive NOISE!

hey,
I recently baught XPS 1530 T9300 with 250GB 7200 st9250421asg
VISTA home primium.
the Laptop is great but it has this Annoying problem:
when the HD is on IDLE mode it Clicks like a clock every second,
although its not that noise its pretty annoying and i payed alot of money for this laptop.
i tried to instal the NHC program and tried already to change the performance setting in the BIOS and it still making this NOISE!
PLS HELP ME!
im about to throw it out the window...
its driving me crazy.
is it the VISTA?
is it the HD?
is it ME?

ALON.
thanks

i have XPS1530, Vista home primium, seagate 250GB 7200.

 

Try turning off indexing for the hard-drive, you could also try turning off superfetch if you don't use it. Other than that your stuck like all the rest of us, with this loud laptop.

Bty whats your dvd like when its spinning, I think thats the worst culprit - mine sounds somebodys spinning a turbine and then every so often doing that 'DJ' thing where you stop the record and it makes a skweak, skweak noise. = embarassing!

 

how do i do all this thing that u said?
how do i cancel the indexing, what is this?
thanks again

 

click my computer -> right click your hard drive -> properties -> de-select the 'index this drive for faster searching (should take a few mins)

Turning off superfetch is the kind of thing you really need to know a lot about computers to do (not that its hard, its just that you probably use it quite a bit) its something you'd turn off if you were willing to sacrifice system performance to get rid of the noise. (superfetch loads programs you use frequently into memory, so they'l start faster) sp its kind of important.

 

Switching off indexing and Superfetch will not stop the clicking every second.
Mine has done this from new also.
It's a combination of particular hard drives (mines a WD 320gb) and Windows Vista processes that cause it but for the life of me I haven't been able to track down exactly what.

You could try a different HDD or I believe there is some software, HDPALM or something that could work but you have to re-enable it every reboot.
Anyhoo, there is a large thread on here about it.

Good Luck.
MM.

 

I have a Seagate 320GB 7200rpm harddrive and it also makes that annoying click click click noise every second or so. I have turned off indexing, superfetching, etc. and it still makes that noise. I just learned to live with it (hey, it only costed me $100).