Click of Death

I heard that your hard drive dies when it starts "clicking" and was wondering how loud of a click it is. My hard drive has been making louder and louder sounds over the last three weeks when it reads and writes. Last week it was about the same noise as my family laptop; today it's about the noise my family computer with 95 on it made back in the late 90s. When do you think it will die, and what noise will it make prior to breaking down?

(I know my hard drive is fatally ill since I found it with "Load boot device" message when I woke up yesterday. Ran disk check, no data errors.)

When it's reading/writing? That thing is gonna die in like a day or something.
Either that or the acoustic dampening system inside it died.

I know that some laptop HDDs make a loud 'click' when idling or turning off to lock the read/write head, but if it's during reads/writes, yeah... not good.

I'd say within a week. Back your sh'it up ASAP.

Hard drives by nature have a few clicks from the read/write head engaging and moving across the platters as they spin. It's when this gets loud like 1 click per 1~2 seconds thats audible even when you have a fan on or just booting up when the system is at it's noisiest.

If anything back up data you need only (pictures, documents, music, etc.). It's far easier and less painful to restore data to a new drive that has been partitioned with Windows reinstalled than it is to re-image from a disk that might be corrupt.

The only time you should re-image is if you are duplicating a PC from one to another.

Hard drives by nature have a few clicks from the read/write head engaging and moving across the platters as they spin. It's when this gets loud like 1 click per 1~2 seconds thats audible even when you have a fan on or just booting up when the system is at it's noisiest.

If anything back up data you need only (pictures, documents, music, etc.). It's far easier and less painful to restore data to a new drive that has been partitioned with Windows reinstalled than it is to re-image from a disk that might be corrupt.

The only time you should re-image is if you are duplicating a PC from one to another.

Yeah it's not a loud click, more like a louder version of normal hard drive noises. I'm going to see if i can get another one so I can move all my data on it before this thing blows up.

Sucks hard because I was planning on grinding balloons and farming chaos scrolls ._.

Yeah it's not a loud click, more like a louder version of normal hard drive noises. I'm going to see if i can get another one so I can move all my data on it before this thing blows up.

Sucks hard because I was planning on grinding balloons and farming chaos scrolls ._.

I hope you have an external hard drive or something. Maybe you can buy one of those Toshiba laptops you posted a video link of?

Also, farming chaos scrolls in JMS is the BEST! Almost as good as farming MH 30s! Or those gold treasure chests, I made 100m off of the treasure chests!

in addition you may check the s.m.a.r.t status in your bios.
(although I never seen a number between 1%-97%...)