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I’ve recently bought a Compaq Armada 1120 second hand, and it works well. Although, it’s hard drive seems to click every 5 to 10 seconds. I’ve noticed it will stop doing it for awhile when I do nothing. I can also hear the hard drive doing things right after I click on something. This computer is from the 90s and I’m wondering if it’s Hard Drive should be replaced, or if this is normal for laptops from it’s time. I’m new to collecting computers like this lol
Mario83w, if the hard drive is making clicking sounds but still appears to function correctly, then this sound may be normal for that hard drive. Clicking sounds are normal for some hard drives during the read/write access of the drive. I would backup all important data and run something like chkdisk to see what is reported.
if you have any concerns about unusual noises from a hard drive you can test it with WD Data LifeGuard Diagnostic for Windows as long as it’s not the system boot drive: http://support.wd.com/product/download.a…… I suggest you select the Long/Extended test which is more thorough than the short test. I’ve known a few drives pass the short test but fail one or more stages of the long one.
