After Windows 10 upgrade my hard drive makes a high-pitched spinning noise each second while idle

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WarrenHolt

Immediately after installing Windows 10 on my PC, my SATA drive has started to make a high-pitched spinning, scratching noise every 1-2 seconds after the computer goes idle for a few minutes. The sound is not loud, but due to its high frequency it is audible and very distracting. I have seen many posts about this problem on Microsoft forums, but have not seen an adequate solution for this problem. It may be a hard drive hardware problem; but then, why would this problem start exactly after I upgraded to Windows 10? Please help me troubleshoot and address this problem.

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