Are you sure it is the COD (click of death) and not a wire hitting a fan blade? If so, use Norton Ghost ($10-20) to transfer to a new disk.
2007-03-19 12:40:23
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answered by robinbatteau 3
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Buy a 100+ GB external hard drive that connects to one of your USB ports. They are always good to have as a back-up or to transport lots of data from one computer to another. Should be about $60.
Then copy all the data to the new drive and get a replacement for the one going bad.
Don't open any hard disk. The tiniest speck of dust - and there are plenty of those invisibly in the air - will guarantee that it crashes as soon as you start it back up.
The grinding noise may be just a vibrating grounding spring for the drives shaft whiche, due to its isolation can otherwise pick up an electric charge. Or a bearing being a bit too loose. If it was actually the head touching the platter, you'd be out of business already. So you have some time, but not forever.
Don't plan to repair a hard drive; that's only worth it for forensics and then costs in the thousands. Hard disks are way to cheap to expend the labor costs to repair.
2007-03-19 13:24:41
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answered by Walter 2
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Realistically...I would choose the easiest way and get an external hard drive that has built-in backup software. Copy everything over from the hard drive using the built-in backup software (make sure you get one that has it...some are just like big empty floppy disks that you have to copy stuff manually to). Depending on where you buy it...you can get some deals on external hard drives that are almost, if not right near the price of an internal hard drive.
2007-03-19 12:43:48
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answered by sls.spec 4
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Your Question itself have answers for you just need to change the phrase....
Try Hard disk 2 hard disk transfer if it crashed and if u think problem with ur head replace it :)
Priortize ur data transfers i think u can get through it
2007-03-19 12:44:55
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answered by mickey_481 1
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I don't think that it is coming from your HDD. It is probably a cable touching the fan. Do not open your Hard drive. That will instantly ruin it. If it is the hard drive than you had to have hit your computer really hard or dropped it or etc; and it would stop working very soon if the read/write head is scraping it. I have never heard of that and don't think that it is possible.
2007-03-21 15:23:35
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answered by gtavcking 3
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WELL SHEETAL THE PROBLEM DOESNT SEEM TO BE FROM UR HARDDISK ,IT MAYBE FROM YOUR CD-ROM DRIVE ,CHECK AND SEE IF THERE IS ANY CD ,ALSO REMOVE CD-DRIVE TO SEE IF THIS ISSUE GETS RESOLVED.IF YOU HAVE AN OLD HARDDISK LIKE MAXTOR THEN THERE ARE CHANCES THAT THE HDD IS BAD.BUT I STILL CANNOT BELIEVE THAT IT IS THE HARDDISK BECOZ IF THE HARDDISK HAS BEEN MAKING GRINDING NOISES THEN YOUR COMPUTER WOULD HAVE CRASHES IN MILISECONDS FOLLOWING THE GRINDING SOUND .ALSO REMEMBER THE HARDDISK R/W HEAD IS IN DISTANCE WITH THE MEDIA PLATTER OS THERE IS NO WAY ITS GONNA MAKE SOUNDS.
WHY DONT YOU TAKE A PEEP INTO THE CPU AND SEE WHATS THE ACTUAL PROB .GOOD LUCK.
2007-03-19 18:24:26
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answered by kirk b 3
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First, maybe the grinding noises may be from you and your boyfriend, not your p.c.! And talk about crashes? Well that usually happens after you come down from whatever your sm.......I'll stop there!!!! HEY, I'm trying to be a good boy here! It takes time!!!!!!!!!!
2007-03-19 12:43:02
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answered by Anonymous
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I would start by running a checkdisk with a repair option. Click Start -->run -->type chkdsk /r -->click OK-->type a y to let it run when you reboot and then reboot. It could take a couple of hours to complete but it could potentially fix the problem.
2007-03-19 12:42:12
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answered by The man 7
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i had this problem earlier. what fastened that's conserving the processor at as low temp as plausible.I did this by ability of fixing cpu fan and utilizing adequate thermal paste(the white substance).
2016-12-02 06:19:49
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answered by ? 4
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the second option would be better
2007-03-23 04:43:43
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answered by PRIYANJANA 2
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