Clicking harddisk sound VGN-FE21S sequel

[Engys]

Hi everybody, I read the FE11S thread about clicking harddrive sound. Greetings to the Greek people! I purchase a VGN-FE21S in Berlin Sony Center and the harddrive also clicks like hell. I gave it back to the service to repaire this harddrive problem. They build in a new harddrive, but it still have this clicking sound. One of the main reasons to purchase a Sony VGN-FE21S was that I could not hear any noise. Now I ask myself where is the differnce between the models they show up in Sony Style Stores and that ones they sell to the customers? They show up a noiseless rocket and gave me a machine that clicks every 5 seconds. In my opinion it should be a report for the German c't and I am sure they will find the problem.

Sincerely ... Engys

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thanks for your help. unfortunately i don't have the time to figure out if it will work, as tomorrow my "2-weeks return back the product"-time will be over. so i better give it back before it's too late for me and i will be one of the unhappy vaio owners with the clicking problem. and to be honest it didn't sound to me like some energy saving function. so i will buy a dell computer now (still sad about giving away the vaio as it looked so good and i really liked the keyboard) and hope to make the right choice.
cheers
oos

[pmitev]

Can't blame you for the choice... this is the right thing to do.

For the rest, that are stuck with theirs clicking disks, make yourself a favor - boot any kind of LiveCD or even boot in DOS and confirm that you still have the clicking problem. The bottom line of what I am saying is that it is a Windows problem not HDD FAILURE. Replacing the HDD will not solve the problem in general.

In my HDD manual the vendor says that they guarantee 300000 load/unloads of the head!!! probably nothing will happen after 1000000 clicks but within a week time I have made about 50000 clicks... In the lab here we have one of this constantly clicking (NOT VAIO) notebooks still running somehow...

And final: I still think it is still up to VAIO Customer Support to find solution for the problem.
Don't you think so?

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hi,

yes, as that problem appears mainly within vaio notebooks with that type of fujitsu harddisk they should take care of that, if it's a windows problem or not. disappointed by the lack of reaction.

(p.s.: it's difficult to check if it clicks while running dos, because the clicking appears not so frequently - sometimes everyday, sometimes it's gone for 1 week. so you would need to run your computer with dos only for some days. waste of time for me, that should be tried by the producer).

anyway, i wrote an email to the german c't magazine and told them to check out this forum and to try to find a solution to force sony to solve the problem. when they'll send any answer, i'll post it here. if not, i will probably not post on this forum again, as i am a dell user from now on.

cheers

o-o-s