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hey everyone

i just bought a new HP computer today and i have a question about the hard drive.  i still have my 5 month old HP computer and it came with a 40 GIG 5400rpm hard drive. didnt hear to much noise from it at all, this new computer came with a 120 GIG 7200rpm drive and it is alot louder than my other one. when i made my dvd backup discs it was pretty loud. is the hard drive bad or is this normal?  thanks for any help!!

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My mom has an HP and it does the same thing. I'm guessing it's almost like a grinding type of noise? It seems like HP/Compaq drives always do that.

I've also had that problem on my computer a couple of times. I just defrag the drive and it seems to go away.

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I have a HP too, and it's kinda wierd cause if the computer is sitting for a long time when i wake it up from the sleep mode its REALLLLLLLY loud. It sounds like the HD is spinning like 1,000,000 RPM. If I was less experienced with computers I would think that there was something wrong going on in there  ;). HP needs to get themselves some quieter hard drives, thats for sure.

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i would say a clicking sound hard to explain it only does it when i open files or looking through the c drive wish i can explain it better.

Thats the sound of disk reading & writing. The larger the drive, the more prominent the sound is.

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