Clicking hard drive?

[ScubaChase]

I moved my computer for the first time in like a year and it boots to a recovery page with the error code of 0xc000000e and the hard drive was making this noise what is happening?

[cesrai]

It's dying go get a new one.

[parkeerwacht]

R.I.P Hard Drive

 

I am sorry to tell you that your HDD is dead. (maybe little functioning but these symtoms are very bad)

How old is the disk, what is the brand and model?

I had drives fail at very low ages like just 500 hours and gave the clicking disk.

 

if you can get any data off of it, you are lucky. Because the chance that is possible is quite low but it is not impossible.

[ZetZet]

Crystal disk info. Unless it doesn't boot at all, then just R.I.P.

[KamiKatze]

blablabla "dead drive" blablabla "buy, buy, buy" - nonsense!

 

Try starting in safe mode. Have you tried accessing it in antother PC/ OS? can you read the S.M.A.R.T. values?

 

Quick googling also suggests to start with the Windows-DVD. Not sure if that can help .

[samcool55]

Get a new hdd, or whatever, and back everything you need of it asap, if that's even still possible.

[parkeerwacht]

blablabla "dead drive" blablabla "buy, buy, buy" - nonsense!

 

Try starting in safe mode. Have you tried accessing it in antother PC/ OS? can you read the S.M.A.R.T. values?

 

Quick googling also suggests to start with the Windows-DVD. Not sure if that can help .

usually this is the case that it is dead. as i said there is a chance that you can still get data off it. But 9/10 cases it is R.I.P. Crystal Disk Info would tell you critical. most of the time this happens

[X_Rated_Box]

Try another HDD/SSD or boot in safe mode

[D4RK]

if everything fails and u cant RMA it, try this maybe

[Johannes_Lazor]

Take out the CMOS battery, wait 20 second and put it in again.

If that doesnt help it is dead.

[AlphaDelta]

I had the same problem this past week with a very old hard drive from a windows xp computer, switched it to another computer and the clicking stopped, but still couldn't access the files, and sadly, the OS within it. so i just gave up trying to revive it. Soooo R.I.P i guess  :mellow:

[Mighty_Miro_WD]

Hi there @ScubaChase!

 

I'm sorry to say that, but your HDD is dying. Nonetheless, you can try to check its health with chkdsk /r command in the CMD, or look if the manufacturer has it's own diagnostic tool that you can download and test the drive with, but first make a backup of the important data . For instance, if you have a WD hard disk you can do this with Data Lifeguard Diagnostics:

 

http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=5LwxuA

 

In case the check confirms there's something wrong with the hard drive, look for a replacement.

 

Hope this helps and best of luck!

 

Cheers!