I posted this here but it got redirected to the Support forum but the DELL employee moderating that forum insists it belongs back over here, so here we are again.
I've been beating my head on Dell Support ever since I bought my machine on the fact that the hard disk continually recallibrates. I've been round and round with Dell Customer support since I bought the machine. I get a continual run around with the outright blatent lie that they know of no trouble with this drive.
Here are messages from the DELL community site with all the other customers so affected…
There’s even a youtube video of some other helpless customer whose drive made this noise until it finally failed…
Further, it is a well known problem with this paricular drive
The same drive is in other DELL machiens with equaly disatisfied customers: