Hard Drive tick

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    SIB

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    Hello and sorry my first post on this forum is a question but i'm really concerned about my newly aquired A150 as the hard drive makes a distinctive "tick" noise every 20 seconds or so. It doesn't sound like the crunch or grind of a failing drive but it definately doesn't sound right to me and i wanted to find out if anyone else experineced this or if it was just a normal noise.

    Any help and advise much appreciated, from the 30 minutes i've used it so far i really like it but if it's faulty i'll have to send it back :(. Knew i should have went for the SSD version as opposed to the hard drive. HAving never used Linux before, i thought iwould future proof myself incase i wanted to put windows on it so got the one with the 1gb RAM and 120GB HDD
     
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    You can use any IDE-SMART utility to see a complete health report of the drive. That handy utility will show exactly what's going on inside that case to every detail over the history of the drive.
     
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    mine is exactly the same and I'm quite sure its normal. I think its really harddrive dependent though, my compal laptop hdd doesn't do it but my toshiba portege did this and it was working fine for ages...
     
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    I updated the BIOS and it does it less now but it didn't stop
    (I am using XP 120GB model)
     
    Crux, Sep 23, 2008
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