Hard drive

[lennox]

I have xp home edition, every once and awhile I'll hear a clicking
noise come from my computer,shortly after it freezes up,then a blue
screen comes up.telling me there is something wrong and is going to
shut down. Is this an indication that the hard drive is going bad..I
forgot to mention when the blue screen comes up I really don't have
time to read the whole thing.but on the bottom is says something about
dumping,at this point I shut it down. Sometime it will go into shut
down mode and say it's shuting down but freezes up and I manually have
to shut it down...I really need help

 

[Guest]

Clicking noise is generally associated with faulty hard drives and a sure
sign of imminent heartache.

Go out and buy a new HDD and CLONE the dying unit across: waste no time, as
a total loss of data and system can be very expensive [US $ 450 +] should any
documents need to be recovered by a specialist recovery company.

So don't wait to spend the money on a hard drive plus recovery: just buy the
drive now and you won't have to send the drive off to a specialist.

 

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I have xp home edition, every once and awhile I'll hear a clicking
noise come from my computer,shortly after it freezes up,then a blue
screen comes up.telling me there is something wrong and is going to
shut down. Is this an indication that the hard drive is going bad..I
forgot to mention when the blue screen comes up I really don't have
time to read the whole thing.but on the bottom is says something about
dumping,at this point I shut it down. Sometime it will go into shut
down mode and say it's shuting down but freezes up and I manually have
to shut it down...I really need help

May not be the hard drive at all, the clicking sound could be the hard
drive parking the head, I heard it last week on mine when I had the4
Blue Screen of death as well and I knew what my problem was.

do this keep happening or have it only happened the once?