Okay, so my laptop makes this really irritating clicking noise. It's done it pretty much since I got it about a year ago, but it used to be quieter. And it didn't happen as often then. Now it's quite a bit louder, and sometimes it will do it a lot. Other times it won't do it for awhile, but I'd say it always does it at least a few times if my computer is on.

I googled "Sony Vaio laptop clicking noise" and looked at the first couple pages. It seems that it's most likely my hard drive, but I have no way to be sure about it. I know that it's not coming through my speakers because I don't hear it through headphones when they're plugged in. Somewhere it suggested going into power save mode, but I am, and that did nothing.

It hasn't really gotten much worse. I mean, it did initially, but it's been the same for awhile now. My computer seems to be running fine. I don't really have any issues.

So, 1) should I be worried? Some of the posts I was reading were like, "back up your stuff, your computer is totally going to die."
And 2) Can I make it stop? It's driving me insane. =o

I tried to record the noise, but you couldn't really hear it over background noise. I could try again with my camera which might work better.

There's the health tab. And I'm doing the other thing. I think it's gonna take awhile.

All of the boxes were green for the error scan.

I can back stuff up. I don't really have the much on here, so it wouldn't be that big of a deal if I lost anything. I really just use this computer for internet and school stuff.

I tried to listen to where it was coming from, but honestly, it sounds the same pretty much everywhere.

Okay, this is the noise:

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It does it twice, at like, 5 seconds and 9 seconds. It might have done it right at the beginning, but I'm not sure. That could have been me. It sounds different on the recording, but not that much.