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clicking computer,won't boot up

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Name: Rayski
Date: August 8, 2004 at 14:09:32 Pacific
Subject: clicking computer,won't boot up
OS: winxp pro
CPU/Ram: p3

Comment:

recently my wife has experienced a bunch of problems with her Dell laptop. First its started to freeze up when she was shutting it down. We had to resort to unplugging the battery to get it off. Now, It won't boot to windows at all. It just make's this clicking noise and won't get past the bootup window from Dell. I can get into the bios but that is it. Sometimes it will keep clicking and turning itself off.
Please Help!
ray

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Response Number 1

Name: StuartS
Date: August 8, 2004 at 14:26:26 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Sounds very much like the hard disk hard given up. The clicking noise you hear is the head seek mechanism trying to sort itself out.
The only solution is a new hard drive I am afraid and they can run expensive. I recently upgrades a Dell Laptop for somebody and a new 30Gb Hard drive cost £150.00
Stuart

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Response Number 2

Name: Rayski
Date: August 8, 2004 at 14:42:57 Pacific

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that is what i am afraid of. it clicks twice, starts the boot cycle,screen goes black and cycle starts again, and again....
Is there anyway to salvage the data on the hardrive to copy to a new hardrive?

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Response Number 3

Name: StuartS
Date: August 8, 2004 at 14:53:08 Pacific

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That depends on how valuable the data is. If the disk cannot be started there is no easy way. You could send it to a company specialising in data recovery, but it can be very expensive.
Stuart

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Response Number 4

Name: Rayski
Date: August 8, 2004 at 14:58:15 Pacific

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I think they can start it maybe one more time as I did last night. I am hoping.
Is there anyway to jumpstart the hardive?
Ray

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