A weird Hard Drive case ( click or not click )

[Hardy_]

Heres the situation,

First pc specs.
4 hard drives
1 3,5 seagate 7200 750gb
1 3,5 samsung 7200 750gb
1 2,5 western digital 320gb
1 2,5 western digital 320gb
Gtx 680
Fx8320e
530w thermal take hamburg
Windows 10

Now heres whats happening:

When I hot swappes the sata cable of a 2,5" harddrive during windows and plugges in into a dvd drive (hp) and made an reboot the pc got stuck in a loop.

Not an ordinary loop,
I cant get even into automatic repair everything is on loop

1.
When windows boots up i got stuck at loading screen(been waiting for 2hours) shut dowsn afterward

2.
Neyt time when im booting up, i get into preparing automatic repair
After 10 sec i get onto a new screen "Diagnosing your computer" im getting stuck here. Been waiting for an hour, nothing happened.

Now here begins the really weird part.

When i get stuck into a loop, my hard drive ( the seagate one) does a clicking noise
3 clicks in 2 second intervalls
Sometime 3 second intervalls
(CLICK, click click......CLICK, click, click..).

But the clicking sound appears only when im trying to booting up from the harddrive.
When i just connect the harddrive to an power cable, i cannot hear any clicking sound what so ever.
(Maybe because it doesnt try to read any files idk)

Here are my thoughts on solutions i came up with:

1.
Visit my brother, use his laptop to create a Windows usb drive. Then boot from it and troubleshoot.

2.
Visit my brother, use his laptop to create an DBan usb drive and format 1 of the 320 gb drives(which btw have nothing important on it) and install windows on it. Then recover files through the new windows from the 750gb drives.

Ahh by the way, I cant remeber if this started before i did or not but..
I used a usb Clonezilla drive to Format one of the 320gb drives and there was only 1 partition which was System reserved, I didnt think anything bout it and still did formatted it. But cant install windows on it idk why.

I also trid disconnecting all other drivea and just booting from seagate 750gb drive, but the result was the same.

What corrupts my mind is following: if the harddrive(seagate) is damaged then how can it try to boot into windows ? All drivea are being shown on bios.
The cables are new.
The whole system is 5 months old.

And the last thing to say is that i tried to recover by using an Windows 7 installation disk, but when it tried loading windows installation i got the usual harddrive error 0e00000..

Hope you can help out, i appreciate every helpni can get.

Btw please hurry im lvl 48 at blade dying to play ☺

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Welcome to the community, Hardy_!

This seems pretty unfortunate because the clicking noises on that HDD are most probably indicating an internal hard drive failure. You most probably are unable to boot from the HDD due to the fact that it's corrupted. I'd strongly recommend you to backup any important data from all the drives, though, and make sure that it's stored, safe and sound, somewhere off-site. This way you'd avoid any potential data loss.

You could use your brother's computer to troubleshoot the problematic drive using its manufacturer's brand-specific diagnostic tool to test the health and check up on the SMART status. (However, there are some hardware failures that might not be detected by the software utility).
Your rig is relatively new, so you should also check the warranty status of the HDD. If it's still covered, the manufacturer's customer support should be able to provide you with a replacement, once you send your RMA request.

Keep me posted and let me know if you need further assistance.
SuperSoph_WD