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Hard Drive Click Of Death Explanation And Live Demonstration

16 Oct


We explain how a modern hard drive operates, the causes for the click of death, as well as some common fixes that may or may not work. See a live demonstration of a SATA drive that has died, been o…

 
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  1. Ranaro3

    October 16, 2009 at 9:31 am

    Can someone help me? I went off the character limit so I couldn’t put this in.

     

  2. Ranaro3

    October 16, 2009 at 10:23 am

    Ok, my hard drive is clicking, but its not as rapid as the video, and it doesn;t stop. It keeps a rhythm to it. When this happens one of the programs I’m running freezes up, I can minimize it and go to a new program, but after 5-10 minutes it takes over the whole computer. I had this before, and I just cleaned off the processor fan because I read somewhere that its either the hard drive or the processor fan. After taht, it started working for about 5 hours, and then it started clicking again.

     

  3. PaXx

    October 16, 2009 at 11:19 am

    I have this problem now but I don’t know which hard drive it is… how can I find out?

     

  4. duff5000

    October 16, 2009 at 11:48 am

    Best explanation on this subject I have heard yet. Very nice job and well worded video. Thanks!

     

  5. Zorce1

    October 16, 2009 at 12:33 pm

    I slapped the crap out of my computer (I was mad, it didn’t want to read an important set of files, and I have anger issues… so…) , and now it clicks. Did I totally kill it or is it ever-so-unlikely-yet-almost-po ssible to fix?This video is quite informative. I like it.

     

  6. MilesDude32

    October 16, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    lol it’s my hard drive. looks the same

     

  7. XxxAlasXxx

    October 16, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    Can a dead harddrive be detected by the computer. My harddrive can be detected but sometimes u can see data sometimes u can’t and when you can see data most of it is missing and all come back and forth.

     

  8. Karoltgreat

    October 16, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    its a good thing that i bought an external drive and backed up my laptop because a month later the Hitachi harddrive in my laptop died. Good thing i had an external or i would have lost 40+ gb of music!

     

  9. alexchrisccc

    October 16, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    mines stoped working but it dosent click that that … just one click … trys again … another click … trys again … one last click … reboots the computer …. any segestions would be nice as im one of the stupid people that dosent back up files