Hard drives are NOT designed to make noise. When that happens, they are operating outside design specifications.
You're NOT going to fix it, no matter how many programs you run on it.
Replace it ASAP.
Running diagnostic programs on that drive will just serve to push it to total failure faster than normal.
In the past year, I've had to RMA two Seagate drives for making noise.
I got my stuff off of both drives before total failure set in.
First they make noise, then they fail all-together.
Get your stuff off the drive before the failure!
Regardless of a failure now and again, Seagate/Maxtor is still my choice of a hard drive.
Good Luck,
The Shadow
