Clicking sound
Started by
stang dude
, Oct 30 2010 04:39 PM
#1
Posted 30 October 2010 - 04:39 PM
#2
Posted 30 October 2010 - 04:50 PM
Hello stang dude.... Welcome to
GeeksToGo,
I'm sorry to hear about your issue. We will try to help you resolve this as soon
as possible.
Stop what you are doing. This could be a sign of a failed HD from the sound of it.
Commonly called the Click Of Death it means your HD is failing.
The first thing to do is do a diagnostic on the hd using the below instructions.
Run hard drive diagnostics: http://www.tacktech....ay.cfm?ttid=287
Make sure, you select tool, which is appropriate for the brand of your hard drive.
Depending on the program, it'll create bootable floppy, or bootable CD.
If downloaded file is of .iso type, use ImgBurn: http://www.imgburn.com/ to burn .iso file to a CD (select "Write image file to disc" option), and make the CD bootable.
NOTE. If your hard drive is made by Toshiba, unfortunately, you're out of luck, because Toshiba doesn't provide any diagnostic tool.
Thanks to Broni for allowing GTG the use of the instructions
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Stop what you are doing. This could be a sign of a failed HD from the sound of it.
Commonly called the Click Of Death it means your HD is failing.
The first thing to do is do a diagnostic on the hd using the below instructions.
Run hard drive diagnostics: http://www.tacktech....ay.cfm?ttid=287
Make sure, you select tool, which is appropriate for the brand of your hard drive.
Depending on the program, it'll create bootable floppy, or bootable CD.
If downloaded file is of .iso type, use ImgBurn: http://www.imgburn.com/ to burn .iso file to a CD (select "Write image file to disc" option), and make the CD bootable.
NOTE. If your hard drive is made by Toshiba, unfortunately, you're out of luck, because Toshiba doesn't provide any diagnostic tool.
Thanks to Broni for allowing GTG the use of the instructions
#3
Posted 30 October 2010 - 05:10 PM
Iv'e ran spybot search and destroy and it sometimes finds something called double click but I dont know if that is anything related.
#4
Posted 30 October 2010 - 05:26 PM
Nope that is software related and not hardware. Please run the instructions I gave as this will tell us if the HD itself is having a problem. If so it is important to find out quickly to allow you to get your important data backed up before the drive fails completely.
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