Lenovo G50-70 HDD Ticking Sound

Hi I bought my laptop last august, now its HDD makes ticking sound when idle but it is fully functional. That sound is very annoying .

Hi Stchoy903,
Welcome to the Forums.
As per the query we understood that you are facing issue with unable to detect external HDD and DVD ROM in your Lenovo G50-70 laptop.
Check any other USB devices like pen drive, or your mobile through USB cable and check if the devices are detected? If yes then it might be issue with the external HDD and DVD rom, also check this devices in other USB ports as well.
Boot the system into and check if the USB ports are enabled, if disabled enable it. Also boot the system into safe mode and check for the issue.
Best regards,
Ashwin. S

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If you're running on Windows 7 64bit, can you consider the following:
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If you get a Code 43 error on the AMD Display Device Manager, try to install the AMD R5 M230 driver directly from AMD website and observe.
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I has become more frequent these days.
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Does Lenovo waranty covers HDD failure?

Marceticd,
From what you have described it sound like your hard drive is failing. As Cabbton pointed out now would be a good time to make a backup copy of any important files that you do not wish to lose. After the backup then contact Lenovo Support for the hard drive replacement. If your laptop is still under warranty then the hard drive will be replaced as part of the warranty.
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Sorry for the late. Yes it found recovery errors and yet not starting please help me
What is the error message (exactly as possible) that you are seeing when it turns on? What you are describing sounds like hard disk failure, but will not no for sure until more informatoin is posted.
Please list the following - as much detail as possible:
Machine Model (not serial)
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Hi Kris_hm,
Welcome to Lenovo Communtiy Forums!
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Hi Niclak,
Welcome to the Forums.
As per the query we understood that you are facing issue with the screen in your Lenovo G50-70 laptop.
Perform the power by removing the extrernal devices connected to the system, shutdown the system and removethe battery and adapter. Now press and hold the power button for 30 seconds and connect the battery and adapter and try to power on the system.
As you have mentioned that there is no display in the system when you turn on the system are you able to hear the windows login sound? Try to move the lid back n forth and check for the issue.
Hope this helps. Do post back if the issue persists.
Best regards,
Ashwin. S

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Does it comes with protective (or simple) plastic on screen.
If it does how to remove it?

Hi Niclak,
Welcome to the Forums.
As per the query we understood that you are facing issue with the screen in your Lenovo G50-70 laptop.
Perform the power by removing the extrernal devices connected to the system, shutdown the system and removethe battery and adapter. Now press and hold the power button for 30 seconds and connect the battery and adapter and try to power on the system.
As you have mentioned that there is no display in the system when you turn on the system are you able to hear the windows login sound? Try to move the lid back n forth and check for the issue.
Hope this helps. Do post back if the issue persists.
Best regards,
Ashwin. S

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So I took it in the Apple store and the HD got replaced, now the data on the old hard disk is with the tech guys trying to retreieve the data off of it. But when I spoke to him yesterday he told me there is a slim chance to retrieve the data <edited by host>.
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To make my story even worse, when I backed up all my images on my external hard drive, I was flying back from Canada to Dubai, and I had my luggage stolen with my hard disk and 2 blackberry bolds, so Im really out of luck
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Hi omegafeggy,
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Message was edited by: KARTHIK_SPARTA

Well I'm sorry for the late reply. But I'm back with a Solution for the "Tick Sounds" on the Mac's. After researching carefully, I happened to learn that , the Tick noise in SSD HD is because of the Head Parking of the pointer on the HD. Hence in order to get rid of the Tick sound, I would suggest all , to turn off/Disable the option "Put hard disk to sleep whenever possible" in Energy Saver section of System Preferences. Thus when the system is idling or in use (awake), you don't get to hear the Tick Sound's. Well after careful observation for almost a month now, I hardly get to hear the Tick Sound once in a day or so.
In Energy Saver "Put HD to sleep whenever possible" is more useful to portables like, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air , since it will consume less battery, and thus enhance the battery life but not for machines like iMac/Mac Mini.
Also some people have installed some 3rd party utilities like Hard Disk Advanced Power Management (HDAPM) to minimise the head parking or reduce the Tick Sound. I would personally not suggest to go for it, since it will change the default behaviour of the HD set by the manufacturer and may corrupt the HD and it may eventually fail. But if you would really like to give it a try, go for HD SPY utility in Mac Appstore , since Apple would have released the utility after taking due consideration in the Appstore.
And for tbirdvet, thank's for the response. I will have to read more about the mechanism on how the Fusion Drive work's and then take a call on it.
Nevertheless I would appreciate if anyone comes out with a different solution for the Tick Sounds from the HD.

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