Computer Death - Help? - Page 2

Hope Leaves · #11 (**permalink**) 10-21-2009, 03:37 PM

aye, the drive is dead, definately learned a lesson about backing up regularly - luckily I didn't lose anything too important, or not as much as I might have anyway. cheers for all the suggestions though people, much appreciated!

uiane · #12 (**permalink**) 10-21-2009, 03:42 PM

clicking noise means the drive is BAD, probably u could retrieve the data back.

garww · #13 (**permalink**) 10-21-2009, 03:50 PM

The clicking noise does not mean it's dead. It means it can't be read or initialized. Unless your "tech" has rewound stepper motors and the like, he's is unlikely a tech - just a mere geek.

bugbrain_04 · #14 (**permalink**) 10-21-2009, 10:16 PM

You tried using the HDD as a slave in another computer? If it's not dead you can recover the files you need and put them on a flash drive or dvd or something, put the drive back in your machine, boot from the XP cd, format the drive, and reinstall XP.

garww · #15 (**permalink**) 10-21-2009, 11:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bugbrain_04

You tried using the HDD as a slave in another computer? If it's not dead you can recover the files you need and put them on a flash drive or dvd or something, put the drive back in your machine, boot from the XP cd, format the drive, and reinstall XP.

You are so right(quite often it's just boot err), but the error can be overcome (as long as it wasn't written to).

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