hard driver clicking?

[vertigomhs]

lately ive been hearing my hard drive click every once in a while. it sounds like something powers up and then a sound sort of like 2 marbles hitting each other (or like a click when the hard drive starts up) happens.

not sure what to think of it or if its even the hard drive. it happened twice when i was torrenting and once right now, the system is brand new and you can find my specs in my sig. thanks for any help.

 

[Rebel44]

What OS do you have - if you have Vista you should go to Power management , find options for HDD and change settings to "never turn off"

 

[Vague]

sometimes hard drives can be configured to spin down when they're not in use and the clicking i think is the sound of the head coming to rest.

However clicking hard drive can also be an indication of hardware failure. I'd start with backing up your data (always the first step ) then run some hard drive diagnostics. Ultimate Boot CD has lots of HDD diagnostics for most of the major HDD brands.
But if you say this is a brand new machine it's probably just the power management.

 

[vertigomhs]

What OS do you have - if you have Vista you should go to Power management , find options for HDD and change settings to "never turn off"

yes i have vista. ill look into this after i do some diagnostics.

sometimes hard drives can be configured to spin down when they're not in use and the clicking i think is the sound of the head coming to rest.

However clicking hard drive can also be an indication of hardware failure. I'd start with backing up your data (always the first step ) then run some hard drive diagnostics. Ultimate Boot CD has lots of HDD diagnostics for most of the major HDD brands.
But if you say this is a brand new machine it's probably just the power management.

thanks for reminding me, i have a UBCD laying around here somewhere, ill get it running.

EDIT: i just realized the hard drive wasnt powering down since it was constantly writing while i was torrenting, this is not looking good for my HD