Vista - Problem with hard drive after installing it on vista!

Hi

Recently i bought a 500gb internal hard drive to put in my computer, it already has one 500gb hdd.

I attached it all and its working fine apart from, sometimes it will make a weird scraping noise and im not sure why, it stops after a while. Its only new so i dont know if it will get worse or anything.

The thing is i tryed it in my old pc of windows vista 32bit, and its fine. But for some reason on this new pc it makes a scraping noise occasionally.

Does anyone know why this is happening? Is there something i need to install for it?


Thanks

it sounds defective. i would rma it. the noise you hear could be the read/write head coming in contact with the platters.

Hmm well i reformatted the drive, as its an extra drive that didnt have any data on it yet. Then i used the windows check disk utility on it.

So far it hasnt made the grinding noise again and im hoping it wont. Not quite sure what was happening as its been fine for quite a while on my 32bit vista machine, then when i installed it on the 64bit vista i had the problem.

I notice that you have 300w power supply, which for your spec is not high. Hard drive noise can be caused by an over stretched PSU.

ok thanks, ive orderd a new 520-600w cooler master so that should be good for it.