Click from Hard Drive - Envy 15

Hey guys,

I've got an interesting question.
I have recently been hearing a random "Click" from the hard drive, however it is not a constant click, and is not a problem that CHKDSK has picked up on, as I ran it several times and it told me the HDD was fine.

The click can be described as the sound you might hear when pushing in a CD/DVD Tray on a drive that doesn't have the motor that automatically pulls it in. so that "click" noise when it is being locked in on some laptops.

That's the noise my Hard Drive is making. Sometimes 10 times a minute, sometimes once an hour. Very random.

Any suggestions or ideas?
The laptop is a week old, however I've been informed the HDD was changed for some reason when I bought it (ebay power seller), I am following up to find out why it was changed... and with what.

Drive is a Toshiba MK6459GSX. 640gb.

I also downloaded VirtualCloneDrive to mount an iso... and it didn't seem to do this before I did that I don't think? But it also didn't happen right after I downloaded that either sooo... thinking about trying to uninstall?

Thanks for any responses.


**Additional note: When entering My Computer, a second drive appears below my C:\ Drive (Standard HDD), labeled as BD-ROM Drive (E:\)

 

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The tic noise I always heard when the HD is probably going to fail, this sound is usually after some sort of fall.

 

Are you positive the noise is comming from the drive? With a laptop, its not always obvious where the noise is comming from. If it is the drive, the tic noise is usualy an indication of failure of the drive. I would back-up anything important immediately, and get a replacement drive.

 

I´ve got the exact same sound in my envy 15 gen 2 on the right side of the computer. Is this something to worry about?

 

Many new harddives have an audible "click" sound. I believe this occurs when the harddrive "parks" its heads. The 320GB WDC Scorpio Black in my Envy does it all the time and the 7K320 Hitachi and the 7200.2 200GB Seagate in my old HP Pavilion DV9300 does it also.
Don't worry about it.

 

The sound is almost replicating that when you hold the power button and it hard boots off. It's that exact sound basically, like the drive is shutting off.

I ran a CHKDSK on startup, and it did it several times when checking a specific sector, but no errors were returned.

This is a very irritating thing to occur every minute or two, and also might give me an anxiety attack of waiting for it to crash. Any fix? Or just new HDD?

If I take it out and put it back in is it possible it will fix it? Like maybe it was just installed crappy?

 

Anywhere I can buy a cheap laptop Hard Drive -_-

*edit: also, how do I know which HDD or SSD will fit in my Envy 15? (2nd gen)

 

Any 2.5", 9mm tall drive is fair game. Basically any notebook drive.

 

Took the laptop apart, lifted hard drive, and it is definitely the source of the clicking.

I can't fix it however, so am just going to buy a new one off newegg.ca for $100 or so and have it shipped.

Really sucks, because I can't return it for warranty to HP (and don't want to for 2 weeks and have it come back destroyed anyways) because the Ebay Power Seller I bought it through changed out the hard drives from the SSD's... that's why I got the laptop so cheap.

So I imagine only the SSD would be covered under warranty.