Re: Hard drive clicks and windows reboots

Weird clicking noises emanating from a hard drive
is often indicative of a hard drive failure, a mechanical
issue only resolved by replacing the defective hard drive
with a new one.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
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"bfritze" wrote:

| Recently my desktop computer hard drive has been making some wierd clicking
| sounds. Now my computer goes to boot up and it reboots in the middle of
| loading. I get a BSOD before it reboots but I cannot read what it says (too
| Fast for me to pause it). Tried rebooting in Safe Mode, same thing clicks,
| BSOD, and reboot.
|
| Any help that anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated.
| Thanks
|
| Brett

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