Portege R30-A freezes in Sleep Mode

Toshiba Portege R30-A
My laptop is only about a month and a half old and ever since I got it, every once in a while when I go into sleep mode it freezes. It acts like its sleeping, the screen goes black, but the power and HD indicator lights are still on and I can hear the computer running
I would press a key or move my mouse and touchpad, and nothing would happen. I would press the power button and still nothing happens.
I have to hold down the power button until it shuts down and then turn it back on, and it tells me the pc was shut down incorrectly.
One time, when I was booting up my computer, I moved it, and it distured the hard drive. If froze up and the pc started making this horrible noise. I thought my hard drive crashed. I had to force it to shut down, and I powered it back up and it ran fine. I don't know if this could have to do with the problem.

see if you can find a situation or sequence that makes the problem occur on demand. 
Any luck with this?
I have attached the User's Manual which applies to the European version of your computer..
   Portégé R30-A (PT343E-xxxxxx)
..with Windows 7 installed
If you haven't yet, create recovery media. See the section Creating Recovery Media, which begins on p. 5-16 of the manual.
-Jerry
Attachments:
UserManual_win7_EN.pdf ‏2392 KB

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