My HP DV4 Notebook Laptop HDD light flashes red?

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I just got my laptop like 3 weeks ago its an HP dv4-2045dx. I just have curiosity on what the red light flashing from the HDD indicates, it happens when I flip my laptop or let drop lightly on my bed . Nothing is wrong with the laptop, I'm just curious since I can't find it on any manuals.

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that is the sign of 'data seeking' - with regular hdds the header [the magnetic thing which reads/writes data from the platters] is sensitive to even slight movements so moving it just a little bit causes the header to lose track - but its not dangerous or anything since the hard disk cache makes sure that there is no data transfer interruption and it repositions itself so fast there can be no actual lag/damage.
 
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