clicking noises

[Nvidia101]

I have a dell xps gen 2 Laptop with a 80 5400 rpm gig hard drive. it sometimes makes intermittent clicking noises? is it supposted to do that?

 

[jayjaya29]

Well your description is a bit vague, but my 80 gig WD800JB was clicking and I turned HDD S.M.A.R.T. off in my bios and the clicking stopped.

 

[Nvidia101]

i looked in the bios and i don't see that option....

 

[Nvidia101]

this is a hitachi .. does anyone know where to download the.HItachis Feature Tool for the 80gb one?

found the model:

HTS541080G9AT00

 

[Nvidia101]

does anyone know how to disable S.M.A.R.T ?

 

[tdg]

http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm Has the Hitachi Fitness Test and Feature Tool. And I would not disable SMART, it should not be causing the clicking sound.

 

[TechLarry]

Well, it depends on the type of clicking noises...

I repair hundreds of IBM ThinkPads's a year, and the most common issue is with hard drives, and one of the primary symptoms is...

Clicking noises. It's the heads trying to seek bad sectors.

Go to the Hitachi site and download their Drive Fitness test.

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

If you don't have a floppy, a few scrolls down they have a bootable CD ISO you can download to create a bootable CD.

As always, backup before testing.

-Larry

I have a dell xps gen 2 Laptop with a 80 5400 rpm gig hard drive. it sometimes makes intermittent clicking noises? is it supposted to do that?