Hi, I am suddenly experiencing massive problems with my laptop. It started with boot problems, then serious lagging/freezing. It got better, sometimes able to boot, then sometimes not, then black screens. Booted from kaspersky disc to retrieve files. Then managed a proper boot. Now I cannot boot properly from rescue disc,or recovery discs and getting strained clicking noise from hard drive. Can I safely assume this a hard drive failure. Thank you kindly
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If you get a new drive, then possibly you will be able to clone the old drive from a bootable flash drive or DVD created with the free version EaseUS Disk Copy and end up a with a fully working cloned drive that will boot, as it has the option to continue the clone when it encounters bad sectors on the source drive.
