My hard drive is dead, isn't it?

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kidpepe

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So I come back from class today and my computer is making a repetitive, steady clicking sound and windows is frozen, so I restart my computer manually. Then I get the same clicking noise and it says BOOT DISK FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.

I took my hard drive out and reinserted it and still got the same message, incidentally, it also says that when I boot the computer without the hard drive installed.

So where do I go from here? Do I try and get Geek Squad to pull the data off onto a new hard drive? Or can I get a new HD with windows already installed?
 
You can try your hard drive as a slave in another computer, to see if windows will recognise it. You can buy a new hard drive, but you'll have to format and partition it first. It could possibly be that something within the windows files is corrupt, maybe the boot.ini file.
 
Yeah, the HD is definitely making the clicking noise. When I take it out of the case I can physically feel the malfunction in the HD.

My computer is a pre-built HP model I got about a year ago (and just outside warranty range) but the guy at Geek Squad said I could contact HP and get the Windows discs from them so I can install the OS on a new HD. Any advice about how to go about doing that? Do I just stick the new HD in, put the OS disc in, and go from there?
 
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