My laptop is 1-2 years old. I would be very upset if something would go wrong with it.Ok, according to what you posted, it looks to me like your drive is in very good shape. If you're hearing clicks now that you didn't hear before, I'd say it's not because the drive is going bad. They're probably caused by something else, but I have no clue what. If you're concerned that the drive has problems, you can try running tests like: smartctl -t short /dev/sda and check again with: smartctl -a /dev/sda |more after the time interval needed to test, to see what the results are. Greg
Yet, I am clueless on what is causing these click sounds, sometimes mixing with beeps on shutdown. And whether to leave it or be concerned about it. And why this is happening when I try a Debian based distro?
S. Sahin