Just got a Sager NP1830 laptop with 7 on it. Is it normal for my hard drive indicator to blink like every second?
I also hear pretty audible hard drive activity noise even when the computer is doing nothing. I just switched from a Mac so I'm not sure if this is normal.
I've had an issue with hard drive noise before but after I installed windows seven it's seem to get worse is there anyway I can make the hard drive less loud because it's driving me crazy..
It's a compaq presario CQ60 the hard drive is a samsung
this laptop is new but it seems to get worse I returned this laptop before and got another same one with the same issue..
. I have 2 of them, one is a Western Digital Caviar Blue, about 2 years old I think. The second is a Western Digital as well, but I'm unsure of the type and age, it's a 150GB drive. One of these drives are making an odd noise, I suspect it's the main drive, the 500GB Caviar Blue. Reason being is because after starting up my system and selecting either Windows 7 or Windows XP it does a Disk Check before going to the Welcome screen, it does not do the Disk Check every time, but it happens quite often. Disk Check of course displays no issues upon completing. The thing I notice that happens, but not very often, it's about a 1 second kind of low screech noise coming from my computer tower. It is making me worried of my computer health and how much longer is might live.
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