Hard disk drive not detected

[rebelceeksrebels]

I was watching the new episode of The Big Bang Theory and I noticed my laptop was lagging. I decided to restart it, but when it was booting up, I was stumped with an error.

Checking media fail... No bootable device.
I shut it down by pressing the power button and I heard somewhat continuous clicking sounds coming from my internal hard disk drive. I entered BIOS and my HDD isn't there, it seemed to not detect it.

I didn't do anything with it for a couple of hours (I met a friend). When I got back at it I turned it on and the hard drive made the clicking sound once and it led me to this screen asking me to enter my HDD/SSD password - - which I have no idea what kind of password it is asking.

Tomorrow I might reseat my internal HDD and maybe reset the BIOS through CMOS battery removal. These are the things I can just do, and clearly I need extensive professional help. But I'm giving this post a shot. I have important files in my HDD and yes, I'm a fool for not backing up.

Any ideas and suggestions are welcome. Good day!

 

[Herc08]

My friend, you are hearing the early sounds of a hard drive dying. That clicking noise is probably the arm not able to move across the platter. If you can, I would highly suggest you back up all of your data and replace your drive. If data is important, I would recommend you take the drive to a professional recovery specialist (i.e. DriveSavers) and they can get it. I hear they saved the Simpsons from some deleted files with Fox.

 

[John7128]

The clicking sounds have 4 main possible causes. This is due to the fast the arm DO move across the platters but somehow the System Area information can't be read.....

There are a a few fix you can apply yourself. Live PCB swap, PCB swap etc....and some you can't unless you get ready for serious stuff.

This said....back up your data if you can and change drive. Run a crystal disk info to check the status of your drive. If it is dead already and you need your data, I would suggest trying to plug no Mac or Linux or directly to a motherboard in Sata...and see what happens...

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