Hard drive fried?

[jmc]

Ok.... bought a new case, and was swapping everything into it.

Now when I power on the PC, the primary hard drive now just clicks every 3 seconds and its not picked up in the Bios at all. Checked the cables with another HDD, and both are working just fine.


Is this HDD done, or something else I should check?

[mootsfox]

Clicking HDD = failure.

Just to check, you are using a SATA HDD?

If so, make sure you have power to just the SATA OR the Molex 4-pin, not both.

[jmc]

Clicking HDD = failure.

Just to check, you are using a SATA HDD?

If so, make sure you have power to just the SATA OR the Molex 4-pin, not both.

Ya, its a western digital 160 gb.... about 4 years old.

I tried using the SATA connection, tried using the Molex connection with same results.

Now time, to boot up the 500gb I bought a few weeks ago lol

[Kriz]

Normally any HD issues I'd recommend SpinRite, sometimes its been able to help clicking drives, but if you can't see it in BIOS thats always a sign of death. Might be worth a go though.

[Shuemue]

It's possible that it's the board, I've had a clicking HDD before where I tested it in another machine and it was fine.

grab www.ultimatebootcd.com and burn the iso. Boot from it and run the hardware diagnostics.

[jmc]

It's possible that it's the board, I've had a clicking HDD before where I tested it in another machine and it was fine.

grab www.ultimatebootcd.com and burn the iso. Boot from it and run the hardware diagnostics.

i'll run it anyways, but I re-installed vista on my 500gb hard drive with no problems....so probably not the board.

[Shuemue]

Yeah, broken HDD is almost always correct, but it's worth testing rather than tossing the drive automatically.