Hard-Drive sounds

[RSanders]

Here lately.. I keep hearing a sound that I believe is coming from my hard-drive.

Like.. When I hear the hard-drive start spinning or whatever to maybe load up windows, or a program.. after it gets through loading.. it makes this clicking sound.. it doesn't do it too often, but it is really annoying.

What could this be? And should I try to explain this sound better?

Edit:

Now everytime I close a program, or open the program.. it makes the little click suond.

 

[joeld]

What hard drive do you have? I have a western digital wd1000bb and it sometimes clicks twice, as if it shuts off and back on. the computer I built for my uncle also has a WD drive and does the same thing. We also have antec power supplies as well - not sure if that may have something to do with it or not....

 

[LiekOMG]

Sounds like the dreaded click of death. Back up NOW and run the HD test program from your HD manufacturer. Any problems are usually shown there.

 

[KyleMac]

Sometimes my SCSI drives do this when they turn on. But only when they turn on, and only sometimes.

 

[Baronz]

My maxtor makes a small clicking noise every once in awhile when it's under heavy load...but it's been doing this for almost a year so i'm pretty sure its ok

 

[RSanders]

That is when mine does it I believe.. like when I load up Adobe Photoshop it has done it.. and when windows loads up and stuff.. it does it.. not too much though.

 

[MarkHark]

You don't have an IBM GXP 75/60, do you?

 

[RSanders]

Nope.. Its a Maxtor 60GB HD.

Maxtor 6Y060L0 is what it says in Device Manager.