Posted: 2/3/2007 12:03:08 PM EDT
| My desktop at home will not start up. It comes up to th boot menu and starts making a clicking sound. It will not let me into the boot menu, but it just stays on that screen and keeps clicking from the cpu. Any ideas on what it could be? Thanks alot for any help. |
| I currently have 2 hard drives in the computer. one is 40 gig and has my windows on it, and the other is 80 gig and it has all of my important files, games, pictures, music, ect. Can I just put a new hard drive in to replace the one with windows, or how do I go about fixing this problem. Thanks |
yes, if you have a windows CD. hopefully your Master drive (the one you boot off of) is the one that went bad. eta: most new drives are SATA and may not work on older computers that don't have a SATA port (well, not without a PCI adapter card). |
Ok, I unplugged the keyboard and tried and that was not it. Can someone elaborate on the rest of this process, I am lost.  Thanks
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Yep, sounds like the disk drive's click of death. Shut the PC off and turn it upside-down and start it up again. I had a disk drive do that and I flipped it over and it was able to start and run to be able to copy files off of it. It's a long shot but maybe it'll work for you. |