Here's a cure for 'clunking' Hard Disks on MacBook Pro's..

I've had this problem with a 'clunking' (i.e. marble dropping onto a granite floor sound) coming from the hard disk area of my year old MacBook pro Core2Duo with a 120Gb Fujistu Drive. On my MBP it happened every 20 secs or so and was really annoying, in a quiet room you could here it and I was worried about the reduced lifespan on the drive. Many users have complained about this, not just MBP users but also on the Mac Mini, which I understand uses Seagate drives
There's lot of discussion on this; replacing the drive (if under Apple Warranty that is), running a utility that keeps the heads unparked by constantly writing data to the drive, or some users are told just to live with it because its normal. WRONG, HERE'S THE ANSWER THAT WORKED FOR ME!
*I downloaded a copy of the brilliant (and free!) utility: Onyx (my version 1.8.3) from www.titanium.free.fr*
It's a general 'housekeeping' MAC OS X program and I got it to do a full Permission Check; Optimize the system; clear cache on Safari, spotlight, font and kernel. Basically I set it to clear/reset everything on the download cache and temporary settings and reset the Spotlight Index also.
Since I've done this I'VE HAD NO NOISE (CLUNKS) FROM THE DRIVE.
So I guess it must have been some indexing routine that was causing the drive to go mad
Hope it works for you:
*Nick B, UK*

okay, good point. I'm running Tiger still..
I seen that. I believe Cocktail and Tinker Tool have been updated and should work the same.
-Bmer
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