My hard drive goes "clunk""

Using a Compaq Presario about 5-7 years old. Just the other day the hard drive started clunking and we are getting mesages that the c drive is unaccessible. The boss is telling me to reformat at which point and time I tell him the hard drive is shot and it's time to buy a new hard drive or computer. Is my hard drive really dead?

 

Sounds like it. You can try fdisk and see if it reports a hard drive or not. Or go into the bios and see if there is a hard drive listed.

 

It might be dead. If the reformat doesn't work, it might be time to get a new one.

 

If it is clunking and you are getting messeges about the drive being unavailable the drive is shot. Even if you managed to get it formatted which I doubt you are still going to have a messed up hard drive. Time to replace it IMO.

 

Hi and welcome.

Tell your boss to open his wallet.

 

AcaCandy, always the exact words for the situation. How are you?

 

Hey Scott, I'm great, getting ready to call it a day online

 

You can't do that, this place would run riot in no time with no one to tell em off

 

I have been in and out all day. I don't know when I'll quit for the day. Take care.