Hard Drive makes weird clicking sound

[dpk777]

My sister's harddrive makes this weird clicking sound every few seconds.

The computer will turn on, however, it won't get past the Windows logo screen when booting up.

Is the harddrive dead?

 

[DaveSimmons]

maxtor.com and ibm.com have hard-drive diagnostic software that can run from a bootable floppy. Try one of those. There may be others listed in the FAQs

 

[OTR]

Find a copy of Norton system works and boot to it and run the disk utility.

Have you tried booting in safe mode or to a dos prompt and running scandisk?

 

[Macro2]

first thing to ALWAYS do is back up.

mac

 

[Mean MrMustard]

In my experience, its about to die. Like they said back it up.

 

[squirrel dog]

I'm with Dave , try the website .

 

[psianime]

Sounds like it's on it's last legs. Do some diag. on it to confirm its dying state.

-psianime

 

[CraigRT]

any sounds other than normal sounds are basically not good. (as your rule of thumb.)
try to get any data off the drive, and prepare to have a new hdd installed.