Hard Drive Makes a Clicking Sound - Comments Page 5

i would like to make a comment from my own experiences, sometimes some ppl may think they have the click of doom, if your hard drive is not detecting at all you may also want to have a look at your power supply yes your powersupply it could be a sign of bad capacitors thought youd like to know

My computer since the first time I got it made 'clicking' sounds but they rather sound like bouncey clicks or something is scraping it.

It doesn't only do it on start up but everytime a program loads.

For me this is normal and this computer has ran for like 5 years+ .

Hi all, i had the excatly same problem, it started after i inserted another harddisk.

after searching the internet, i founded out that it could be that my powersupply could´n handle it

After i removed that 2. harddisk, the clicking stopped!

So try that guys

Take care
Brian
Denmark

I had ticking sound a few days before and now if i try to turn on my pc , d hard disk cant be detected. when I turn on the switch hard disk starts n then immidiately ticking sound n then it stops working...i have a very important data into it...Cay I recover that data?? Can anyone plz tell me..thanks

I'm having a problem like this as well. My hard drive makes a clicking sound and shuts off everytime I try to boot Windows normally But if I boot up in safe mode, no clicking, and no shut off. This is how I was able to find this site, and make this post.

Dear readers,

On most XP computers, you might push F8 instead of holding the CTRL key to open up the boot options.

Chris

My secondary hard drive makes a slight click sound when it fires up, and sometimes takes a second to kick in. It has been doing this for about a year now and once it kicks in it works great. When not being used it's like it powers off. I think it started after a reformat of the primary drive. My power supply is very new and 950W.

Bob, here's a question for you. Several weeks ago my laptop's hard drive started making a lot of rapidly repeating clicking sounds, and the laptop ran very slowly. I backed up all my data straightaway and expected the worst.

After several days or so of it doing this, the noises stopped, and I've not had them since. Chkdsk has found no errors, and the laptop has behaved since.

This has me puzzled! Should I expect sudden failure? What could have happened? I'll appreciate any advice. Thank you!

EDITOR'S NOTE: In my experience, clicking sounds are always a bad sign. If the clicks came from the drive itself, and not the system speaker, then I would consider it suspect. At very least, keep a good backup! (See http://askbobrankin.com/which_online_backup_service_is_best.html )

I have clicking noise from my hard drive every time i start up my computer and after i start up my pc in freezes on my bios screen can't even press on F things that would bring me in the bios menu or to the xpress recovery things. I have some lights on my mother board all four of them are working but they must not work if there are no errors. My pc is new. Got it together like 3 weeks and it worked perfectly!!! What should i do what is my problem is it all just because of hard drive? Oh, yeah and my power supply is new too it has 750W. The hard drive is Recertified Seagate 500GB 7200RPM 32MB Buffer Serial ATA II 3GBS Hard drive.