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So today my computer started making a clicking sound.
It sounds sorta like a turn signal when I turn my computer on, and it takes quite a bit longer to startup completely, though once it does, there's no more click, and everything runs smoothly.
Any ideas? Bad hard drive?
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Doubt it. Sounds like a really, really dead hard drive. I had one that squealed at a really high pitch whenever I booted the system. I think I recorded it for posterity. Alas, it has long since been lost in the sea of upgrades.
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Bet that's not the only thing you've had die on you when you were trying to use it, eh? Guess your drive isn't as hard as you wanted to believe. Maybe it'd function normally if it were bigger?
The long boot up is the system trying to recognize the drive and failing, and then going ahead and booting up the rest of the way.
If you ever stick an external drive on your system, and then run without it, you get the same phenomenon.
As long as you have backups, there's not much you need to do except replace that drive and start afresh.
If you don't have backups, it is possible to sometimes have the platters read and information retrieved. It's expensive because usually they have to take the platters out of your drive and put them in another drive, then read them, if possible.
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