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Thanks to Fujisan's post for the following link: http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_harddrive&message.id=7175&highlight=clunk#M7175 I now know more why my laptop HD clanks and clunks. It is the parking of the read/write heads. It has something to do with the...

Thank you Fujisan. I you described the sound yours and my HD makes, " ratle ratle clank, ratle ratle clunk!". I have noticed that my Dell laptop does make the clunk noise alot more than my compaq presario notebook. Both computers use Hitachi brand hard drives. My dell uses the Hitachi...

I contacted Dell tech support. they don't know anything. the guy tells me to get the lastest bios for the HD controller. I tell him I have the last bios, he then says take out the HD and look for lose parts! I need to contact the Hard drive manufactor.

Yes I have backed up my HD. I did not call the tech guys yet as I didn't get the time. Anyway you maybe onto something about the heat, I have not heard the clunk noise when the computer was cool. I'll ask the tech guys at dell about that when I call them. As to EMF or RF I don't think thats...

I only hear this noise on my laptops. I have never heard this noise on my desktop before. I update my antivirus program regularly. As to the Welcomeback’s Toshiba laptop’s hard drive noise, this make me think that its not a virus. Maybe it’s a bug in windows XP, does your Toshiba laptops have XP...

I want to know why its doing this. All of my laptops hard drives will make a loud clank or bang noise every now and then. I had them all networked together one time of another, could it be a virus? I have run a full scan using Norton Anti-virus on all of the computers and found nothing.

I have been hearing this loud clank noise with the Hard Drives with our Laptops, it happens very now and then. Sometimes I will hear the computers make a low sounding internal deep when the HD clank routine. We have a small home network and we are using Win XP home. The network has Dell...

I recently got a dell inspiron 8100. It has SXGA 15" screen, and GeForce 2 go 16mb. The color mode seems to be stuck in 16 bit even though I set it to 32 bit in the display settings. When I play video games that have video intros, they have poor color mixing as though the color palette is...