Re: Clicking hard disk

[jm0307]

Dear members,

Is a clicking hard drive, which furthermore is not recognized by the system utility, a hardware problem, or could it be a virus?

I have googled the symptom and have found information which sees this, generally, as a hardware malfunction, but have also encountered info on 'boot disk viruses'. If it is the latter:
(1) which AVs can be launched from a CD so as to scan the boot sector?
(2) will this cause problems with the resident AV?

Thanks and season's greetings,

jm0307

[Brian N]

Personally I have never heard of such a virus that makes your harddrive click.
Pretty much any AV these days can scan the MBR so you don't really need a bootable AV for that.

I'd just backup the data and get a new harddrive as quickly as possible. Clicking is never good, and eventually it will start deleting your data and later on die completely.

[zapjb]

'Tis the click of death.

Backup your data. Get a new HDD or RMA it.

[Bob D]

{QUOTE-> 'Tis the click of death.
Backup your data <-QUOTE}
Heed zapjb's advice.
Back it up NOW b4 it expires altogether.

[jm0307]

Greetings,

Thanks for your replies. May this hard drive rest in peace.

Wishing you a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

jm0307