Re: Clicking hard disk

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

 

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.

 

'Tis the click of death.

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

 

Heed zapjb's advice.
Back it up NOW b4 it expires altogether.

 

Greetings,

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

Wishing you a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

jm0307