can hear movement/click when turn over HDD

LeJimster · 19 Mar 2009 at 19:14

I am correct in thinking you shouldn't hear anything move inside a HDD if you turn it upside down?

The drive in question is a Seagate ST3160815AS 160GB. It's not making any weird death like noises when in actual use. It's just when I had it in my hand i heard movement inside there.

Weird thing is I can still navigate the drive, but every time I start this PC it runs chkdsk on it, every time not finding any errors :-/. Just my luck if its not a quick fix.

LeJimster · 19 Mar 2009 at 23:57

Well if anyone ever has an issue where the file system is corrupted on Vista and the default Chkdsk fails to repair it. Try searching for Hirens BootCD - It's a life saver. I've just booted into a lite version of XP and run chkdsk from the command prompt (chkdsk c: /x /r) and unlike the vista version of chkdsk. XP's has done a full scan found a ton of issues and has repaired them all. I find it outrageous that I've got to use xp to fix vista :-/.

miniyazz · 21 Mar 2009 at 00:37

heh too true!

Mullins · 21 Mar 2009 at 22:48

LeJimster said:
I am correct in thinking you shouldn't hear anything move inside a HDD if you turn it upside down?

It's normal, some laptop drives even say on the sticker that the noise when you handle the drive is normal and doesn't indicate a fault.

Just dont go shaking the drive as that can cause the read/write heads to damage the platter.

LeJimster · 22 Mar 2009 at 02:39

When I thought about it afterwards.. I remember laptop drives making this noise.. I just don't ever remember a desktop HDD making a noise when you turn it over. Well, I was just trying to rule out hardware failure anyway.. but the fault was caused by user stupidity and a less than bomb proof OS (vista).