Noisy HDD

[henryjhost]

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad 320 that I got a couple years ago with a i7 7500u and 16GB of ram. I stopped using it around a year ago when I built a PC, and I've decided to give it to my sister for homework, video editing, and maybe some light indie gaming (The Sims 4, Minecraft, etc.). Anyways, I'm replacing the old clicky 2TB HDD with a 256GB SSD, and I was wondering if there was any use for the old HDD. It conveniently started clicking around the same time that the laptop's warranty expired, and I never really stored more than 500GB of stuff on it at once, so I'm baffled that it started clicking so soon, even if it still works. I would love to use it in my personal build, or give it to a friend or my dad to use in their PCs, but is it reliable or fixable, or should I just throw it out?

[Enderman]

Check it with crystaldiskinfo.

[voiha]

As @Enderman said check it with some third party program for your ease, for fixing there is some tutorials online you can try them if you're at the point that you dont' care to throw it out.

[Founders]

If you want to scan the drive use SeaTools.