Laptop HDD corruption

[SharpCode]

Ok just got a new hdd installed it and put windows 8 on it works fine. Then i shutdown and it done it normally before i heard a little click sound right before it shuts entirely off. This was happening with the old drive once i installed windows 8 on it. But before hand with any other OS it was fine maybe a very small click but nothing as obvious as this. Is this anything to be concerned about?

Edit: its not super loud or making any sort of scratching sound. More like a little click/pop then its off.

[techgnome]

Ok just got a new hdd installed it and put windows 8 on it works fine. Then i shutdown and it done it normally before i heard a little click sound right before it shuts entirely off. This was happening with the old drive once i installed windows 8 on it. But before hand with any other OS it was fine maybe a very small click but nothing as obvious as this. Is this anything to be concerned about?

Edit: its not super loud or making any sort of scratching sound. More like a little click/pop then its off.

That's the sound of the HDD turning off as the system cuts the power... the loudness of the clikc varies from HDD to HDD and system - my Lenovo is fairly quiet about it... but it has more "padding" than my Acer, where the sound is a bit more obvious.

To piggy back on Nightwalker's suggestion... I had something similar happen... it no longer boot no matter what system I put it in. As a last ditch effort I bought an extern conversion kit, dropped the drive into it, attached the USB cable... I now have a perfectly functioning external 500Gb external drive. It's just for what ever reason the boot sectors got corrupted. So even if it doesn't boot, it might still be usable.

-tg