Bobc11 Posted December 31, 2009 ID:177954 Share Posted December 31, 2009 I think the hard disk failed. it makes a click and makes a continuious clicking sound for about 1-2 seconds. it does this regularly. The computer and the bios claim there is no hard drive in the IDE Slot. Is there anything i can do at home to fix it. I dont care about the data. It is just games. The computer is a gateway 400sd4. Please help. I dont want to buy a new hard disk. Also can i put windows xp on a partition on the hard disk. It is really important. should i be panicing?? PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PedroHin Posted January 1, 2010 ID:177999 Share Posted January 1, 2010 Nope, nothing you can do about it at this point. Be glad there was nothing important on it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robot202 Posted January 1, 2010 ID:178082 Share Posted January 1, 2010 Yes, It sounds like your drive the the "Click of Death". There is nothing you can do except by buy a new drive. Sorry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobc11 Posted January 1, 2010 Author ID:178182 Share Posted January 1, 2010 thats not cool!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobc11 Posted January 1, 2010 Author ID:178184 Share Posted January 1, 2010 do you just throw it in the trash or can it be recycled?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marktreg Posted January 1, 2010 ID:178204 Share Posted January 1, 2010 What PedroHin and robot202 have already said is almost certainly correct. It's extremely likely that your hard drive is broken beyond repair. It's possible that a specialist may be able to repair it. But to have a specialist even look at it may cost you twice as much as buying a new hard drive, so that's completely pointless anyway.However, if you are confident of 'operating' on your laptop without breaking it, there are a couple of 'last resort' things you could try. The first thing is to take out your hard drive and re-seat it a couple of times to make sure that a faulty connection is not the cause of the problem. Then, if the bios still doesn't detect the hard drive, you could try this. Take out you hard drive and triple bag it using airtight freezer bags, the put it in your freezer overnight. After that, if the bios detects the hard drive, immediately run a full sector disk check to make sure that the read-write head travels over the the entire platter surfaces. Very occasionally this will work. But most of the time, even after the freezing process, the bios still won't detect the hard drive.But, even if this does work, it's only usually a temporary fix. So I wouldn't store any important data on that hard drive. Best of luck if you try it, Bob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobc11 Posted January 2, 2010 Author ID:178377 Share Posted January 2, 2010 I am so trying it! Yea! Thanks, everyone i will tell you what happens! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobc11 Posted January 2, 2010 Author ID:178390 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Hey, one problem with the surface scan. I have Ubuntu on the hard drive. Any ideas? I was going to reinstall this pc anyway Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marktreg Posted January 2, 2010 ID:178764 Share Posted January 2, 2010 I don't know much about Ubuntu, Bob. But you can download files to create CD/Floppy boot disks from the hard drive manufacturer's website to check the disk for errors, etc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobc11 Posted January 4, 2010 Author ID:179392 Share Posted January 4, 2010 It did not work. I am looking in to getting a 60 gb one off EBAY. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marktreg Posted January 4, 2010 ID:179582 Share Posted January 4, 2010 I must have had at least 50 customers with broken hard drives, and the freezing trick has only ever worked on two of them. So it's only a last resort thing. At least you gave it a try, though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobc11 Posted January 10, 2010 Author ID:182386 Share Posted January 10, 2010 yeah. I got a 160 gb hard drive for 10 dollars than thr 60! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefox Posted January 12, 2010 ID:183091 Share Posted January 12, 2010 160GB for 10 bucks... not bad at all.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoKenny1 Posted January 12, 2010 ID:183187 Share Posted January 12, 2010 A 160GB for 10 bucks is not bad at all if it works. You can buy just about anything on eBay so caveat emptor... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobc11 Posted January 12, 2010 Author ID:183231 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Not $10! I ment it was only 10 dollars more than a 60 GB witch was $47.00 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefox Posted January 12, 2010 ID:183418 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterpit Posted February 17, 2010 ID:201292 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Yeaah... hi guys! Yesterday a friend of mine come to me with the same problem! After Avast Home full scanning, HDD receive syndrome known as COD (Click Of Death) without any warning. I tried to reduce the capacity from 160 to 32GB than system recognize the HD but the drive remains unaccessible tomorrow I will try to fix it using Hiren's Boot 10.0 The drive is 4 years old soft used Seagate 7200rpm ide interface! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefox Posted February 17, 2010 ID:201312 Share Posted February 17, 2010 if you are getting the COD then that hard drive is toast.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoKenny1 Posted February 17, 2010 ID:201344 Share Posted February 17, 2010 In addition to what Firefox said its not fit to eat either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobc11 Posted February 17, 2010 Author ID:201392 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Unfortantly, you may need to replace the hard drive that's what i did. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterpit Posted February 19, 2010 ID:202390 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Yes the HDD is complete death! I will try to restore some data with putting it into the refrigerator. I had watching some video on youtube how with replacing the yoke clicking HDD come to life Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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