WD 500G HDD weird sound problem

[UJ09]

I have a WD 500G HDD(WD5000AACS), it serves me well until recently I've been annoyed by the weird sounds that coming out from this HDD.

If I'm idling or surfing net, I'll hear some "tick" sounds from this HDD randomly. Sometimes it'll occur rapidly, something like 10 secs or so will sound once, sometimes I've to wait for quite a long time until I heard the sound again, as I said it's random.

Tried google and see what I can get, ended up it's very likely that the heads of this HDD damaged or crashed(http://www.datacent.com/datarecovery/hdd/western_digital). And it seems that I can't fix it by myself.

So what can I do? Any other solution that I can fix it by myself instead of sending back to WD for RMA? Thanks.

http://www.filexoom.com/showfile-17544/wd5000aacs.mp4
I've recorded a short clip of this annoying sound in case you guys want to know how is it sound like.

 

[lsv]

I didn't even listen to the sound because of the 60 second wait. Next time use divshare/zippyshare they allow streaming of compressed audio files.

If you hear ticking or clicks chances are it's about to die. Get your data off it and RMA.

 

[Russwinters]

If it stills works, back the data up and RMA


Even if you could fix these drives, they are no longer reliable after being opened (especially WD)