Hello MDL, My friends PC has a HDD trouble as i guess. His PC's Description is: CPU: Intel Core i5-4570 3.2GHz RAM: 4GB HDD: 1TB The HDD has such sound: Tik Tik Tik and so on Also there is no HDD listed on BIOS. I opened case and change HDD sata cable to another port but same thing. a sound is still exists. What is a problem? Thanks in advanced for your time and support.
"an old trick" this works sometimes hookup another spare drive up to your computer, take the old drive put it in the freezer for an about an hour take it out and hook it up and try to copy all info off drive this does work if your lucky!!
If hdd is starting to make sound, then it is a signal to buy new one and backup hdd, try to low level format as it may be due to bad sectors on disk.
Zen, that is an OLD way, we used to do that here as well. the Freezer trick worked for small drives around 600MB to ~1GB. I dont know how well it will work with TB's of data today. Saved a lot of data doing that though lol
If there's nothing important to be recovered, go get a RMA done, if there's still warranty. If no warranty it's as good as a piece of junk as parts inside have probably failed.