I recenlty upgraded my S’s hard disk to a Seagate 5400rpm 80GB. However I can hear some strange clinking/clunking sound when the disk is idle (with normal Windows XP background process running). The sound is like the sound when a hard disk is powered off or the drive head is reset or something. And it’s not audible when the disk is in operation.

This is actually the 2nd seagate hard drive I got, I returned the previous one because of this noise, which I thought it must be a fauly drive. But this second one produces exactly the same noise.

Anyone knows whether this sound is normal?

turn off the indexing and the system restore.

this will fix it.

the problem is with the sony bios. It tries to park the drive while inactive, while XP is kicking it back due to the Indexing and the System Restore.

REALLY ANNOYING