Hard Drive Makes a Clicking Sound - Comments Page 4

My hard drive has been clicking for some time, but only while restarting(I don't restart often) Just last night I shut it off because I had to prep it for a new PC to save troble of reinstalling everything. Now it wont Boot and as well it clicks.
My BIOS will not recognize it and I have put it back in exactly how it was(Proper cables where they were). I have yet to try some things but over all it is a dampener on my gaming.
250GB Maxtor 7200RPM SATA HDD

Here are some clicking/whirring/drilling/knocking and other sounds the drives make with explanation.
Hope this helps someone.

although most clicking noises result in harddrive failure, having worked in the IT (computer) field for 12 years, i have found two hard drives where clicking was fine..... I consider most harddrive failure noises to be a "clunk" and not a click... however the two that worked........ were more of a click than a clunk..... I suggest backing up any unusual behavior...... the first ran for 6 months before i replaced it out of fear.... the second ran for 1 month before being replaced out of fear... (1 was work related, the other personal)....... Keep in mind these were different sounding than the usual "click of death"....... if you dont know the sound.... assume the worst.... backup ASAP

I would also like to point at that someone commented on clicking being caused by a full drive.... this is purely coincidental..... clicking is a failure no matter how it sounds..... It might last 2 minutes... it might last 2 years.... but it is abnormal use either way

Thanks for the writeup. Your sound in the first line doesn't work... While googling about my drive I came across this page with all kinds of sounds: http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php
Hope this could be helpful for someone.

Thanks my HD was clicking in the new housing , so i thought it was going out.I turned it on its side and now everything is ok . No more clicking sound ,thanks

Thanks for your sound advice. I got out the level and checked. My computer was not even close to level. After adjustment to level, it works perfectly with no clacking noise.

Bob, Ihave a question for you. I bought a computer for my shop from a local pawn shop, with windows XP PRO,when it came time for windows updates, I said yes, then I got the notice i might be a victum of counterfeiting software. they sucked up a lot of the files and every time I lookup any thing with the word microsoft,remove xp, ect, it sucks it up, locks it up. Can i just clean it blank and start fresh, buy new hard drive, or what? Help. Alan

EDITOR'S NOTE: Yes, you should reformat and install a licensed, legal copy of XP. Start here: http://askbobrankin.com/reformat_hard_drive_under_xp.html

Try defragmenting the Drive, it solved my problem.

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