My hard drive suddenly started making a click click noise with intervals of about 3 seconds. When i rebooted it made the same noise. - Now it will not detect the hard drive the main black screen when you turn the computer on. is it a physical error with the hard drive? Being a musican all my years of music is on there, if i dont fix it i will be devestated. I cant reformat obviously, Should i open it up and make sure that everything is in place and operating/moving correctly. Can someone please help me, i would appreciate it so much.
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Hard Drive noise/will not detect
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DON'T OPEN IT! Hard drives are assembled in a "clean" room, to open it would probably destroy it. The more you "play" with it, the worse it will get. Since you are online, you must have access to another computer. Set your drive as "slave", and put it into another computer to see if you can access the files. If so, back up immediatly. If not, you will probably have to send it to a company that specialises in this type of repair. Very expensive!
Does the BIOS recognize the drive as being present? What you are hearing is the "head" seeking, trying to find the info on the hard drive. What OS are you using? You may be able to run Fdisk/MBR. Post back with more info about your system.
Does the BIOS recognize the drive as being present? What you are hearing is the "head" seeking, trying to find the info on the hard drive. What OS are you using? You may be able to run Fdisk/MBR. Post back with more info about your system.
Try what micker377 says first as you might be able to copy over the files if you slave the drive to a known good system.
I've never used it but I have seen lots of good feedback on Steve Gibson's Spinrite program for $89.00. It will at least get you to the point where you can get those music files off of it before the drive completely dies and by the sound of it, it is going to die.
If you have $89.00 or more worth of music go to this site to check it out
Purchase it here:
lgebhart
A+, Network+, IC3
MAI for MS Office 2000
I've never used it but I have seen lots of good feedback on Steve Gibson's Spinrite program for $89.00. It will at least get you to the point where you can get those music files off of it before the drive completely dies and by the sound of it, it is going to die.
If you have $89.00 or more worth of music go to this site to check it out
Purchase it here:
lgebhart
A+, Network+, IC3
MAI for MS Office 2000
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Hi thankyou very much for your advice. Ok i will try and give you some technical information, i know slightly over average about computers, so dont worry your not working with a complete amatuer.
Right! Im motivated to sort this out.
O/S - Win 2000
Hard Drive 1 (Set as Slave) - IDE 80 Gig
Hard Drive 2 (Set as Master) - 120 Gig
Proccesor - AMD running at 2.1 Mhz ( i think )
Sorry, i was slightly vauge in my first message. Now, this is exactly what happened.
1. The old HD wasnt booting, so i bought another HD and my friend added it to my computer.
2. Booted up, and it recognised the old drive, and loaded windows from the new one.
3. Could access the drive and was anticipating copying everything.
4. Suddenly a click click noice occured, in the old drive. Every 3 seconds.
5. Rebooted, now the old drive is making click click noises at 1 second intervals. However it does recognise it now as a IDE Drive on start up, but just after recognising all the boot devices it says, "Primary Slave Error" press F1 to resume.
6. Windows loads up, but does no old drive. (Drive F)
Ok i hope thats a bit more for you wizards to go by. Thanks. Neil
Right! Im motivated to sort this out.
O/S - Win 2000
Hard Drive 1 (Set as Slave) - IDE 80 Gig
Hard Drive 2 (Set as Master) - 120 Gig
Proccesor - AMD running at 2.1 Mhz ( i think )
Sorry, i was slightly vauge in my first message. Now, this is exactly what happened.
1. The old HD wasnt booting, so i bought another HD and my friend added it to my computer.
2. Booted up, and it recognised the old drive, and loaded windows from the new one.
3. Could access the drive and was anticipating copying everything.
4. Suddenly a click click noice occured, in the old drive. Every 3 seconds.
5. Rebooted, now the old drive is making click click noises at 1 second intervals. However it does recognise it now as a IDE Drive on start up, but just after recognising all the boot devices it says, "Primary Slave Error" press F1 to resume.
6. Windows loads up, but does no old drive. (Drive F)
Ok i hope thats a bit more for you wizards to go by. Thanks. Neil
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