New hardrive still makes clicking noise after trashing original hdd.

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New hardrive still makes clicking noise after trashing original hdd.

Soo I had a hitachi 320 gig hdd in my MacBook and yesterday it started clicking. I restarted the computer and I got the flashing folder with the question mark on it. I would run a disk repair and the hdd wouldn't show up so I considered it toast and bought a new 500 gig seagate today.
I redid everything with the startup disks and when going through the process of installing, I heard the clicking noise again with this hardrive. Fearing ruining this hard drive I shut my computer down. Any suggestions? Is it possible I somehow purchased a faulty hard drive? Thanks for any help

macbook, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Oct 16, 2009 4:04 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 16, 2009 4:16 PM in response to bruce ridilla

Oh it's a seagate momentus 2.5" internal hardrive . I looked it up and a few other people have this problem with it. Do u think I should just take it back to best buy?

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JasonFear

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Oct 16, 2009 5:55 PM in response to bruce ridilla

Hi HailGalvatron,

It's very possible that the new drive is DOA. It's not very common but it certainly happens. The drive shouldn't "click" or "grind" when the drive platter is spinning. If you're not able to detect the volume on the drive properly via Disk Utility (when booted to a CD/DVD), I'd say it'd be worth getting the drive exchanged.

I have a few Seagate Momentus drives in my stable of external drives and they've behaved pretty well over the years. I believe the issue that other users were reporting were with a specific 60GB model found in the first generation of MacBooks.

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Answer 3

Oct 17, 2009 7:01 AM in response to bruce ridilla

Thanks for the advice Jason. I will return that baby today and gt a new one

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