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hard drive clunk noise from e1705

post #1 of 6
10/15/06 at 8:06pm
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My month old 1705 orginally came with a WD 120 gb 5400 rpm drive. The drive worked fine but every once in a while (about every 15 min), it would make a "clunk" noise. Called dell and they sent me a replacement fujitsu hd. this hd does the same thing. Everything else works fine. Is this a normal thing or did i get two duds in a row?
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post #2 of 6
10/15/06 at 8:21pm
My 80GB 7200RPM Hitachi doesn't make any noise. Are you sure it's the hard drive?
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post #3 of 6
10/16/06 at 1:46pm
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yes it is definitely the hd. I can hear the hard drive make the normal loading noise right before it makes the "clunk".
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post #4 of 6
10/17/06 at 11:17am
not good....
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post #5 of 6
10/17/06 at 6:24pm
I get a sound from the HDD, I think it's when it's going into standby, but it's more of a 'ping' sound. I've had four of these laptops and three of them made this sound. All of them worked fine though.
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post #6 of 6
10/18/06 at 12:20am
... maybe the drive head parking itself.. mine does that when the laptop is idle
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