My Hard drive makes a clicking sound and is not recognized by BIOS

Trizoy · 04-04-2008, 04:30 PM

If you plug it in as a secondary sometimes windows can repair HD problems.. But this doesnt sounds good.

Holiday · 04-04-2008, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by dznutz

rule is when the external doesn't work try taking the external casing apart and put the hard drive in the pc. something may be wrong with the controller card. hopefully you have the right connections and or extra cables. report back to us after you try this.

on a side note i wonder when will the majority of users buy another hd for important backups

It's an internal HD, not external

PC eye · 04-05-2008, 12:06 AM

I presumed that by simply looking in your sig indicating two other drives as well.

With multiple drives here I never put everything into one basket as far as anything unreplacable. If a drive does go I still have another place to retrieve files from.

Sometimes data disks become a problem too simply trying to read one burned on a different drive in an older case. The notorious "disk cannot be read" error!

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PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 20,278	I presumed that by simply looking in your sig indicating two other drives as well. With multiple drives here I never put everything into one basket as far as anything unreplacable. If a drive does go I still have another place to retrieve files from. Sometimes data disks become a problem too simply trying to read one burned on a different drive in an older case. The notorious "disk cannot be read" error! __________________ Turning the Tongue into a Device Controller http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Sma...ory?id=5647175 Is EBay going out of the Auction Business? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5626840&page=1

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