Hmmm...HD dead?

[JETninja]

Was about to switch monitors on my Teens PC. They had been playing BF2....shut down the PC, removed the old 17" CRT. I hooked up my old 19" Trinitron, powered up, and the Bios hung at the locating drives part, and I could hear a constant Click......Click......Click...... noise. I opened the case and tried to locate the noise, finally isolated it to the drive that of course has Windows loaded. Just to be sure, I unplugged its power and powered up the PC again. Silence, though of course it couldn't run windows and would just reboot.

Any re-course with the drive or just say FU and get another? It was perfect for the OS drive at 20Gb. At least they didn't lose the bulk of thier data since its was on the other HD.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

its dead. only way to try to get data off it is putting it in the freezer, gives the drive enough time to get data off it but you said it didn't have anything important on it.

 

[canadageek]

try taking it out of the case, and giving it a few smacks with the heel of your hand on the right side of the drive. it works on my (and my friends) ipods all the time.

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, One or two clicks per second continuously is usually a sign that the drive can not read the data off the disk. The click is the heads being recalibrated back to the first track and reseeking the desired track only to fail again. Since it failed like it did, you may have some other problem with the drive and it would not hurt to try an Fdisk and Format /s. You may get lucky. You will lose everyting on it, but may save the drive. Not likely.

Good Luck, Jim