GS60 - Mousepad freezing/crashing and hard drive clicking issue

Hello all!
I'm going to try to put in as much detail as possible, hopefully some kind person here will know what I can do to troubleshoot these issues
I bought an MSI GS60 2PC Ghost notebook a month or two ago and I've been noticing some strange issues.
Occasionally during use, my mousepad will freeze for around 2 seconds and then start back up. What i mean by this is that i'll be swiping my finger and then the cursor will just stop moving for 2 seconds mid-swipe. This seems to happen fairly randomly multiple times a day.
The most annoying part is that the first time it happens after a fresh restart, the mouse seems to lose precision. Meaning that after the first freeze, if i do a quick swipe and stop, the cursor will lag behind a bit and fully stop movement noticeably after I stop moving my finger. It happened while I typed this.
>"REINSTALL YOUR MOUSEPAD DRIVER"
I did, it started happening again. Here's the thing. If I'm also playing music while using the laptop and mousepad, any music I'm playing will temporarily also slow down/ get distorted during that 2 second freeze.
Eventually, the mousepad will just crash altogether and I'll have to restart to get it to work again.
>"ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE NOT HITING THE MACRO TO DISABLE THE MOUSEPAD"
I'm sure. The music issue leads me to think it might be something else, not the mousepad driver. Although I should note this doesn't happen if i connect a USB mouse and use that instead.
I'm also hearing a weird clicking noise every so often. It seems to come from the bottom right hand side of the laptop when facing the keyboard top-down. Like, to the right of the mousepad. Could it be the HDD? It doesn't really bother me too much but it's pretty loud and people in class will often turn around thinking i'm taking a picture of them. It just happened as I typed this as well.
I've tried recording these things but they never happen with the camera rolling.
Anyone have any ideas? I'll shower you with free Steam games if the help you provide ends up fixing the problem.
Thanks in advance :cool:

Turn on the task manager and check if the CPU or HDD is having a high usage while the cursor freeze happens.
Try this:
Go to Control Panel> Hardware and Sound> Power options> change plan settings(choose the one you're using)> Change advance power settings> Processor power management> set 98%, 99% of on both on battery and plugged in.
Clicking sound for HDD is normal if the read and write head is working.
You can run the HD Tune's s.m.a.r.t test and see if there is anything wrong with the HDD, if not, then I think you don't really need to worry about the sound.

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