Hi
This is concerning a 120GB (Seagate Momentus® 5400.4) Acer Aspire one
The problem is that every 3 or 4 seconds, the hard disc makes a noise as though its head is being parked, and then it resumes working. It does this all the time, even whilst the OS is booting. The result is that the interface lags badly (e.g. scrolling gently though a menu, the highlight would freeze on one item, and then after the hard disk makes the noise, the highlight jumps to the position of the cursor). Its so bad that sometimes, window outlines open and lags for 2 seconds, then the drive 'clicks', and the rest of the window opens immediately.
I thought it was due to the linpus install, but installing XP did not solve the problem. Amazingly, vista helped a bit, but it was too resource heavy for the atom processor and I had to go back to linux, and the lagging.
What do you think? Is the hard drive bad?
This is concerning a 120GB (Seagate Momentus® 5400.4) Acer Aspire one
The problem is that every 3 or 4 seconds, the hard disc makes a noise as though its head is being parked, and then it resumes working. It does this all the time, even whilst the OS is booting. The result is that the interface lags badly (e.g. scrolling gently though a menu, the highlight would freeze on one item, and then after the hard disk makes the noise, the highlight jumps to the position of the cursor). Its so bad that sometimes, window outlines open and lags for 2 seconds, then the drive 'clicks', and the rest of the window opens immediately.
I thought it was due to the linpus install, but installing XP did not solve the problem. Amazingly, vista helped a bit, but it was too resource heavy for the atom processor and I had to go back to linux, and the lagging.
What do you think? Is the hard drive bad?