What does it mean when a hdd makes a clicking sound and the pc

>>55962185
If it won't go passed post, how are you getting into the bios?

>>55962200
Windows wont start I mean, but the pc still turns on and the hdd shows up in BIOS

>>55962217
Check your boot order. It's not giving any errors? Is it just not even attempting to boot windows, or is windows failing to start?

>>55962237
HDD started making clicking noises out of the blue (SMART said it was fine just yesterday), pc froze and I had to restart. Hdd still shows up in bios, but when it's time to initialize windows I just get a black screen.

>>55962275
Sounds like the arm is seized up to be honest. Dunno what would cause that though. If it's w10, get to the part where it should start windows and hard reset it. Do this 2 or 3 times and see if windows brings up the auto repair function. You could also try changing the Sata port.

The arm motor has probably failed. HDD info that shows up in bios isn't stored on the platter. Time for a new HDD or you could open it up and see if it's jammed.

>>55962403
>>55962431
Thanks, I'm on W7, I'll try putting the hdd on an external enclosure to see if I can still access it, shake it around and if everything else fails open it up

>>55962488
The hard reset trick might work on 7 as well, not sure though. But it likely is a dead drive. Could probably just run Linux on a flash drive and run a disk check on it.

>>55962185
Run HDD regenerator.
Pray it can regenerate the sectors.
Backup your shit asap