Vista causing strange HD noise on shutdown/restart

[Bane]

Firstly this doesn't happen with XP. I though it could be a hard drive head parking feature of Vista.

Have not looked at disabling services yet, and other stuff. Just worried this will reduce the life span of my hard drive.

The hard drive clicks followed by, what I can best describe as, a whistle. This occurs three times before the machine completes option I selected (shutdown or restart).

Anyone else experienced this quirk?

Shuttle SN27P2 with nVidia nForce 570 SLI/570/550 AMD - Windows Vista 64-Bit driver with all components installed.
Samsung SP2504C S-ATA hard drive with acoustics set to quiet mode. Single drive.

Edit: Found someone else suffering from it on a different forum here

 

[something daft already!!]

It sounds like its powering down. I get the same when I put it to sleep, "click", then a high pitched whirr as it slows down. Which chipset do you use?

 

[MeatLoaf]

I also get a clicking during shutdown that dosent happen in XP.

I actually thought it was the PSU tho

 

[Bane]

The chipset is an nForce 5 570 Ultra. Thought it was a lower version of the 570 line myself, but according to Shuttle's site it's Ultra.

Device Manager Storage controllers section includes "Microsoft iSCSI Initiator" entry. The Disk drives sections lists the Samsung drive as a SCSI disk device. Looks like nVidia has taken driver creation short cut, as I remember the SCSI naming was present in a early nForce 2 motherboard driver.

Will try installing the driver pack again some time in the future, excluding the storage controller.

 

[Final8y]

I get the HDD powering down as well on vista.
I hope MS sort that out soon

 

[Bane]

Still does the three clicks without the nVidia nForce drivers. I also remember Vista identified the hard disk prior to installation of any drivers as a SCSI device.

 

[Bane]

There is a fix (fixed my system anyway) from the optional updates. Updates the nVidia S-ATA drivers.