hard drive randomly clicks

So here's the deal. I work with computers, fix them, etc but I've never seen a problem like this.

I have a 1TB Seagate hard drive. One night, I heard it randomly clicking when it was downloading the Ubuntu beta via Torrent. I immediately backed up my data.

The next day, I ran Seagates bootable hard drive diagnostics on the drive. I did the long test and it passed.

It's about 2 days later and I'm still using the drive that clicked. It hasn't frozen yet but I did hear the click a couple times when typing this. It was burning a DVD of pictures so it seems like it clicks when the hard drive is under load.

Is the drive dying? Should I replace it? Any ideas?

 

Internal.

 

I think you can replace it.

 

@DDP, That didn't help however it doesn't click as often, maybe once a week.

@ lgnatzjza, I know I can replace it but it's a hassle.

 

@DDP, Diagnostics passed but it still clicks occasionally. I can't really try the drive in another computer because it'll just be sitting there however I can say that it never did it in the past, I've had the drive for about a year and half.

I'll check out Seagate forums.

 

hi ppl i was facing the same problem with my laptop's internal tht i just got 6 months ago "TOSHIBA" n i dnt know wat to do
P.S: i put my laptop on my laps alot and give me warning "Vibration has been detected in the PC.The hard disk drive head is temporarily moved to a safe position" by toshiba's HDD protection program.
it stopped from a week but maybe it could be more useful for me to know as other users.
thanks in advance)

 

Well I backed up my drive way back when I first head clicking. I continued running the drive that clicked and saved all my data on an external drive and sure enough, 2 weeks later it's constantly clicking. I can still access the drive but trying to load Windows, or copying data off it takes forever.

Seagate support said their diagnostics utility won't catch a clicking drive, it's odd but there you go, don't use Seatools.

 

try connecting it to another pc and see if it still clicks.

 

Don't need to, I know it doesn't work and I know it's not my power supply because I can have 3 drives plugged in and the only one that will click is the 1TB.