My notebook sometimes makes clicking noises, probably coming from the harddisk. It still works fine.?

Question

I have a Sony VAIO. For several years now. I'm afraid this is a sign of imminent harddisk failure. But it has been going on for months. I hear the click about once a week. Please advise.

Answer 1

Well usually with that noise continuing for that amount of time, it sounds like your hard disk is going bad.

A few things you can do to keep the computer going.

*Take some condense air and spray your computer vents.

*Running scandisk/defrag at this time would be impractical, but it wouldn't hurt.

Make sure if you haven't done so already, back up all of your files/data, by going to Star, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Files and Transfer Wizard, or just copy and past your files onto cdrom/floppy disk.

I hope this helps

Answer 2

Battery terminals are corroded or the battery is lifeless. sparkling the terminals and notice if it is going to initiate. If no longer, take the battery to a community vehicle keep and have them load attempt it for you. A battery could have sufficient juice to potential the lights yet no longer sufficient to crank over the starter. If the starter have been undesirable, you may nonetheless right here the armature rotating, and the motor attempting to teach over, it in basic terms would not initiate up. If it became into your solenoid, you may hear an particularly speedy, repeating clicking sound.

Answer 3

It sounds like a HDD problem. If the computer is not under warranty, you can buy another HDD and connect your failing one to a USB adapter to retreive the data. You should do this while you can still pull data off of the drive, so limit your use until you can get a replacement.

Answer 4

Backup all your data and buy a new hard drive. The one you have now is on its last legs