"Jim Bancroft" wrote in message
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| I have a 13 GB Western Digital IDE hard drive, manufactured in 2000. Last
| week I noticed a clicking sound when starting up the PC, and it turns out
| it's the hard drive, which is still recognized by the motherboard (most of
| the time), but isn't bootable....the drive clicks, I hear it spinning,
then
| about 20 seconds later it clicks again and spins once more ( by that I
mean
| the rapid clicka-clicka-clicka of a healthy drive), almost like it's a car
| trying to warm up. It never boots however.

My guess is that it is constantly resetting the head to track zero to try to
find data. It could be the controller that is bad so if you could find an
identical drive you could swap the boards. Other than that there are
services that do this but for big bucks I believe.

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