Hardrive Clicking

Hi All

I've come from Google as I've been searching for others who might be having the same problem as me and came across your great site from this post.

I recently purchased a Seagate 1Tb drive and it began making a clicking sound then one day crashed and from there whenever I tried to start XP the computer won't start up but with the hardrive unplugged would boot fine and it wouldn't show up when plugged into a usb external. So the place of purchase were happy to change the hardrive over under warranty and I was issued a replacement and it was working fine for a month but now I'm having the same problem again! From what I've gathered in my searching the hardrive is dead but before I send off another email to the place asking for another warranty and screwing around with their time, I just want to be 100% it's not my computer that is causing the problems or am I just having bad luck?

Cheers I appreciate any replies

 

A bad quality power supply can kill components, proably even hard drives. Any idea of its model?

 

A generic one I'm guessing this would make it not covered by warranty

 

Yup... Hardly ever hardware destroyed by a bad PSU are covered by the PSU warranty/whatever. Return the HDD, buy a new PSU.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341012
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171028
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