CD-ROM drive periodically clicking even though empty

I have a DELL Latitude E6540 with a CD-ROM drive and Windows 7. Every 30 minutes or so the CD-ROM makings a clicking or rubbing noise even though it is empty. What is going on?

It's kind of annoying.

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It's just the laser moving backwards and forwards. For some reason it's trying to read a CD that isn't there ... Could be a program you have running that intermittently tries to read the CD.

Although you want to make sure it's not your HDD ... Could be getting the click of death, in which case you want to back up all your data before you lose it

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