If it's quiet like you say then the motor or heads of the drive are locked and unless you backed up you might be SOL. You're running SCSI on a home PC? > -----Original Message----- > From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Elaine Gairy > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 8:42 AM > To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [CTS] Hardrive Problem? > > > Yesterday my hard driving starting making this constant click . . > . click . . . click noise. The screen froze so I did an > Alt/Ctrl/Delete and I got the dreaded blue screen with a load of > stuff on it. I wrote it down but am not at home so can't share > it now. I shut the computer down by holding down the power > button. When I re-booted things were very quiet and eventually I > got a black screen with the message "Operating System Not Found". > I've tried a boot disk and the recover disk from HP and it seems > it's not getting to my hard drive. Does anyone have an idea on > this. Does it sound like a hard drive problem or a SCSI Card > maybe? I'm sick that I might have lost everything on my hard > drive. Thanks, Elaine > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > Computer Talk Shop http://www.computertalkshop.com > Un-subscribe/Vacation, http://www.computertalkshop.com/list_options.htm > > List HowTo: http://www.computertalkshop.com/faq.htm > > To join Computer Talk Shop's off topic list, please goto: > http://computertalkshop.com/other_cts_lists.htm > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Talk Shop http://www.computertalkshop.com Un-subscribe/Vacation, http://www.computertalkshop.com/list_options.htm List HowTo: http://www.computertalkshop.com/faq.htm To join Computer Talk Shop's off topic list, please goto: http://computertalkshop.com/other_cts_lists.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------