Clicking Noise issue *resolved*

[Borought]

Sorry... but it still makes the DAMN Western Digital clicking sound.

I am tired of looking a solution, when should Western digital give us one, and stop the clicking hard drive sound.

Do not buy Western Digital hard drives. NEVER.

[Ninive]

Hello,

I thought I'd post an update on this. I just bought a new Asus laptop, and everything seemed to be working perfectly - except for an awful ticking noise. I ran all the diagnostics I could find, and no problems were detected with my hard drive. I finally, based on your suggestions, tried hdparm and Scorpion's acoustic file, and the ticking has stopped Lets hope it stays that way

My hard drive is from Western Digital, and my OS is Windows 7 64 bit.

[sammita]

Question for those of you who have fixed the clicking noise with the help of Quiet HDD or other similar programs:

How long has it been since you used the fix? Do you see any hard drive issues? I'm especially interested in the long-term consequences of the programs that stop clicking.
I have an option of returning the "clicking laptop" to the store or use Quiet HDD. No guarantee though that another laptop will not have the same issue. Any advice is appreciated.

[ex.treme]

I own Inspiron 1520. Before 2 years i solved problem with WD Scorpio Blue 5000BEVT with Crystaldiskinfo, later with hdparm.bat file.
But now have new problem. Bought Samsung 1TB 2.5' laptop drive and can't stop the clicking noise. Crystaldiskinfo, Quiethdd, Hdparm at -254 or -255 don't work. Turn off AAM, APM with no helps.
Looks the problem called "Program fail count" (B5) and rapidly erasing. After 2 days have 380 000.

[melissament]

Originally Posted by Borought

Sorry... but it still makes the DAMN Western Digital clicking sound.

I am tired of looking a solution, when should Western digital give us one, and stop the clicking hard drive sound.

Do not buy Western Digital hard drives. NEVER.

i use rusian software called PC2000

it's solved mine..

[santosh_g31]

Originally Posted by Cyanize

Update2: For all the Vista users (mostly x64), please follow the suggestions by deadsimple and use hdparm if you don't want to deal with the constant "screen brightness" issues that NHC has with vista.

Update: This solution has been proven to work with Western Digital and Toshiba Hard Drives in addition to Seagate. Several users reported success while applying the following steps. I can only recommend this to everyone who wants to max out the performance of their HDD and get rid of the annoying clicking sound.

Well finally after waiting 6 weeks, I got my inspiron 1520 on Monday.
I have an AUO screen (fortunately not the grainy one, unfortunately with some bad leakage on top/bottom, but tolerable), and my headphone jack is working correctly. The CPU Whine is sorta gone after installing XP.

But just as I thought I got lucky, I heard it....a permanent clicking noise coming from the hard drive accompanied by the LED light of the HDD.

But before I present you with the solution, my specs:

# Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 (2.0 GHz/4MB L2 Cache)
# OS: Microsoft XP Professional
# Hard Drive: Seagate 160 GB SATA @ 5400RPM
# Screen: 15.4" WXGA+ Widescreen (1440 x 900) AUO 2077
# Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256MB
# RAM: 2.0GB DDR2 SDRAM @667 MHz (2 x 1GB)
# Optical Drive: 8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/Double Layer Support
# Battery: 6-cell lithium ion
# Wireless: Intel 3945 ABG

Purchase price: $ 1,013

So, after spending countless hours researching the internet for a solution to the clicking sound of the HDD while being idle, I nearly gave up.

Then I recalled a handy little tool I used a while back with my old acer laptop.

Notebook Hardware Control.

Since I identified the clicking noise as "HDD head parking", I knew the drive wasn't failing (and ofc I ran every possible HDD health check utility) so the only thing I needed now was a utility to change the acoustic management setting of the drive. And you guessed it, Seagate didn't offer anything like that. Thank you Seagate.

But lets get to the solution:
1. Download the NHC 2.0 Pre-Release 06 (Dell version)
2. Download and install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (if you don't have it installed)
3. Install NHC
4. Run NHC
5. Go to the newly appeared icon in your system tray and doubleclick (it's the one with the CPU frequency...so don't confuse it with the RMclock one)
6. In the window that just appeared select the Settings tab
7. Click Show all NHC options and settings
8. Now select the Hard Disk tab, and under Advanced Power Management select the highest setting: Max. Peformance Mode

Voila, the constant clicking sound is gone for good. Have fun.

PS: Ofc you can play around with the settings. Hope this solves the issue for many inspiron users out there.

Hi Cyanize,
I own a Dell inspiron N5050 laptop.
It's hardrive failed within two months.
The drive was replaced,however i found that replaced drive made some significant crunching or grinding noise,so i called the Dell representative and hardrive has been replaced 4 times since then because of the noise that i hear.
two times it was Toshiba and two times it was Seagate,but both made similar noise(crunching or grinding).
Now finally i have Toshibha HDD now but still the same problem.
I had ran every possible tests to check the hardrive,the hard drive passess all tests.
Wiil the solution given by you in the very first post solve the issue or is there some problem in my laptop.
Specs
----------
Inspiron n5050
Intel core i3-2330M CPU-2.2GHZ
OS=Windows 7 64bit
HDD=Toshiba 500GB ,model=MK5076GSX ATA device

Please help me on this.

[santosh_g31]

Originally Posted by Cyanize

Update2: For all the Vista users (mostly x64), please follow the suggestions by deadsimple and use hdparm if you don't want to deal with the constant "screen brightness" issues that NHC has with vista.

Update: This solution has been proven to work with Western Digital and Toshiba Hard Drives in addition to Seagate. Several users reported success while applying the following steps. I can only recommend this to everyone who wants to max out the performance of their HDD and get rid of the annoying clicking sound.

Well finally after waiting 6 weeks, I got my inspiron 1520 on Monday.
I have an AUO screen (fortunately not the grainy one, unfortunately with some bad leakage on top/bottom, but tolerable), and my headphone jack is working correctly. The CPU Whine is sorta gone after installing XP.

But just as I thought I got lucky, I heard it....a permanent clicking noise coming from the hard drive accompanied by the LED light of the HDD.

But before I present you with the solution, my specs:

# Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 (2.0 GHz/4MB L2 Cache)
# OS: Microsoft XP Professional
# Hard Drive: Seagate 160 GB SATA @ 5400RPM
# Screen: 15.4" WXGA+ Widescreen (1440 x 900) AUO 2077
# Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256MB
# RAM: 2.0GB DDR2 SDRAM @667 MHz (2 x 1GB)
# Optical Drive: 8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/Double Layer Support
# Battery: 6-cell lithium ion
# Wireless: Intel 3945 ABG

Purchase price: $ 1,013

So, after spending countless hours researching the internet for a solution to the clicking sound of the HDD while being idle, I nearly gave up.

Then I recalled a handy little tool I used a while back with my old acer laptop.

Notebook Hardware Control.

Since I identified the clicking noise as "HDD head parking", I knew the drive wasn't failing (and ofc I ran every possible HDD health check utility) so the only thing I needed now was a utility to change the acoustic management setting of the drive. And you guessed it, Seagate didn't offer anything like that. Thank you Seagate.

But lets get to the solution:
1. Download the NHC 2.0 Pre-Release 06 (Dell version)
2. Download and install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (if you don't have it installed)
3. Install NHC
4. Run NHC
5. Go to the newly appeared icon in your system tray and doubleclick (it's the one with the CPU frequency...so don't confuse it with the RMclock one)
6. In the window that just appeared select the Settings tab
7. Click Show all NHC options and settings
8. Now select the Hard Disk tab, and under Advanced Power Management select the highest setting: Max. Peformance Mode

Voila, the constant clicking sound is gone for good. Have fun.

PS: Ofc you can play around with the settings. Hope this solves the issue for many inspiron users out there.

Hi Cyanize,
I own a Dell inspiron N5050 laptop.
It's hardrive failed within two months.
The drive was replaced,however i found that replaced drive made some significant crunching or grinding noise,so i called the Dell representative and hardrive has been replaced 4 times since then because of the noise that i hear.
two times it was Toshiba and two times it was Seagate,but both made similar noise(crunching or grinding).
Now finally i have Toshibha HDD now but still the same problem.
I had ran every possible tests to check the hardrive,the hard drive passess all tests.
Wiil the solution given by you in the very first post solve the issue or is there some problem in my laptop.
Specs
----------
Inspiron n5050
Intel core i3-2330M CPU-2.2GHZ
OS=Windows 7 64bit
HDD=Toshiba 500GB ,model=MK5076GSX ATA device

Please help me on this.