Disk making annoying noises.

Hi,
My disk has started making two vibrating noises everytime I open or close a program or press save button and sometimes randomly.
It's like "brrrrp brrrrp" and each noise is about half a second long and it is very annoying. The sound is identical every time.
It has been doing it for approximately a week and this morning I took the disk out of the computer and dropped it on a matt in the hope that the impact would fix it and the noise is still there although it sounds higher pitched.
Please tell me how I can stop it from making the noise thanks.
Last edited by helpvampire (2009-09-23 13:48:22)

Yeah it's in a raid array so I won't lose data but the noise is very annoying .
I've worked out that it only makes the noise on writes, not reads.

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