actually it tends to happen when the drive is doing a lot of seeking, im not sure if its the heads coming out of park or whether it actually is crashing
i would have exected the smart status to read lower than 100% if its a dieing drive
also it passed the machanics test on DFT
cus on the old laptop i had that was dieing u heard a clunk hdd would get slowed down and ud hear it spining up back to speed
where as on this one u just here a clunk.
oh well spose if it goes gimme an excuse to buy a 40gb drive wish laptop drives cost the same as their desktop counterparts then id get me a 80gb or larger LOL
Edit im gonna try the firmware update util that the ibm site listed when i went to downloads for that perticular laptop as ive heard some harddrives have a problem with their firmware that makes them clunk