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    New hard drive clicking?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by bigredal2007, Jul 26, 2009.

  1. bigredal2007

    bigredal2007 Notebook Enthusiast

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    bought a 7200rpm 320gb western digital hard drive a few weeks ago for my new laptop and yesterday it started clicking. It only happens every now and again and it's still working fine, both checkdisk and western digitals own diagnostic tool say its fine but the clicking is quite loud and very irritating

    Has anyone else had this? Is it a sign of problems to come?
     
    bigredal2007, Jul 26, 2009
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  2. Mr._Kubelwagen

    Mr._Kubelwagen More machine now than man

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    Scorpio Black? Yeah, I had the same problem with mine when I first got it. Running HD Tune makes it stop for a little while, because the drive is constantly being accessed. I've had mine about a year, and it only clicks once in a while, but I've gotten used to it and probably don't notice it anymore. There's no concrete solution as far as I've seen.
     
    Mr._Kubelwagen, Jul 26, 2009
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  3. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    Try HDparm to adjust the power management worked on my WD 500gb
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Jul 26, 2009
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  4. goofball

    goofball Notebook Deity

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    or you could also use quietHDD to disable the HD APM.
     
    goofball, Jul 26, 2009
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  5. bigredal2007

    bigredal2007 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks guys
     
    bigredal2007, Jul 26, 2009
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    Kotos Newbie

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    oh lord I totally forgot about my clicking laptop harddrive...
    wish I had mentioned that in my RMA to ASUS :/
    the laptops been dead for 6 months due to a video card failure
    for got that the HD used to drive me nuts!
     
    Kotos, Sep 22, 2009
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  7. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    You could also try your BIOS settings; some manufacturers like Dell include acoustic settings for hard drives in their BIOS setups.
     
    Bog, Sep 23, 2009
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    drummo Notebook Guru

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    I had the same clicking problem after installing a WD3200BEKT in my PC.
    This is a known and documented issue with these drives and WD has published an apparent solution in their “Answer 1414”.
    I ran the WD utility programme from a CD but it did not give me the option to fix the HDD and advised instead that “No drives need to be updated” so the clicking continued. However, the WD solution may work for you.
    In the end I exchanged the WD3200BEKT for a WD3200BJKT (with free fall sensor – even though I didn’t need that feature) and the clicking stopped! My BEKT clicked, the BJKT doesn’t.
     
    drummo, Sep 24, 2009
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    aidil Notebook Evangelist

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    Not necessarily true. I have two WD3200B JKTs: the first one doesn't click (label says -if I remember corretly- manufactured on December 2008) and the newer one clicks (if I remember corretly manufactured on July 2009). Both are from Thailand.
     
    aidil, Sep 25, 2009
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