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So I have a 500GB Samsung SATA hard drive and about 15 minutes ago, Windows started to lock up. It locked up so much that I had to use the reset button to restart but all I get is a black screen. However, I left it and now it's showing the pink background of the grub bootloader. The HDD light is solid and it's making a clicking noise. Now what!

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So I have a 500GB Samsung SATA hard drive and about 15 minutes ago, Windows started to lock up. It locked up so much that I had to use the reset button to restart but all I get is a black screen. However, I left it and now it's showing the pink background of the grub bootloader. The HDD light is solid and it's making a clicking noise. Now what!

Seeing as you have grub loaded, try go into the linux distro you have installed and check the smart status. might just be a borked windows install, in which case a good old offline disk check + a /fixboot /fixmbr should do a trick.

 

But year, clicking hdd means it is dead/dieing get the new drive and then attempt to save your information

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Seeing as you have grub loaded, try go into the linux distro you have installed and check the smart status. might just be a borked windows install, in which case a good old offline disk check + a /fixboot /fixmbr should do a trick.

 

But year, clicking hdd means it is dead/dieing get the new drive and then attempt to save your information

It managed only to show the background. Nothing else.

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Hi there.

 

Basically a clicking noise is not a good sign. Still you can run a chkdsk test on the drive and see what the results will be. Just make sure you to make a backup of your most important data a priori.

 

If you're using Windows you can run a chkdsk /r on the drive with CMD to see what the results will be. Click on Start, type CMD, press enter, and in the black windows that will appear type chkdsk [write the letter of the drive:] /r.

 

In case the results show there's something wrong, look for a replacement drive.

 

Hope this helps and let us know how it went. :)

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