Hard Disk Not Working

[DigiQ8]

Ok so this morning i run my PC, and it get stuck in the windows loading screen, with a ticking sound coming from the harddisk.
So i plugged in my second hard disk ( Windows Vista Beta 2 ) so i can try to access the first harddisk files and see if anything wrong with the files, so the Vista finished loading, i get stuck with a black screen with the same ticking sound as before.


I need help , i dont wanna lose my Steam files and some others

 

[Reaktor4]

click

 

[WhiteZero]

Umm.. theres a good chance that if it's ticking that the head has crashed into a platter, thusly SpinRite aint going to be able to help jack. Though I guess you can still try.

But more than likely the HDD is useless now.

 

[DigiQ8]

Well i went to a computer stroe, and they said its useless now D:
Bye bye my 300gb sata2 hd ;(

 

[WhiteZero]

A cool little fix you can try for near-dead hard drives (which wont help you in this situations, but just as a tip) is that you can actually stick the HDD in a freezer for a little while and you might get it to work long enough to copy a few important files.

 

[Reaktor4]

Umm.. theres a good chance that if it's ticking that the head has crashed into a platter, thusly SpinRite aint going to be able to help jack. Though I guess you can still try.

But more than likely the HDD is useless now.

clicking doesnt always mean that. ive heard all sorts of strange noises coming from drives that still worked.

 

[WhiteZero]

clicking doesnt always mean that. ive heard all sorts of strange noises coming from drives that still worked.

Right, but it's a good candidate.