HD clicking noise

Run defrag, XP is indexing the files for faster finds, but
even though you just installed you have badly fragmented
disk. The arm is rapidly moving full travel.


"Aevi6" wrote in message
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| I recently performed a clean XP Pro installation on a new
| hard drive (Hitachi 20Gig) in a Toshiba Satellite 2210XCDS
| (my old 6Gig broke). The installation went without a
| glitch. The hard drive is setup with NTFS file system and
| partitioned (10 Gig/partition). So far, I have not
| installed any updates, not even SP1 or security updates.
| The notebook runs very nicely with the new hard drive,
| except...
|
| When the computer is idle, the hard drive is accessed
| every three or so minutes. When this happens, it makes
| the usual spining noise, followed by a clicking sound.
| The duration is very short, about one second. Sometimes,
| the clicking noise occurs two or three times in a row
| before the next cycle starts.
|
| I tried Intel Application Accelerator, but failed due to
| the BX440 chipset not supported by IAA.
|
| I checked the DMA status. It is being set at DMA Mode 2
| for both Primary and Secondar IDE channels. That looks
| normal to me.
|
| Other applications on the hard drive: Office XP, Acrobat,
| Norton Antivirus, Winamp, and Winrar.
|
| Anyone with an idea for a fix? Or a point in the right
| direction for me to investigate this problem further?
| Thanks a lot.
|
| Aevi6