Hdd giving up on me?

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Hello comunity!
This morning i woke up and i had to format a friend's hdd. I took it out of his PC, connected it to my PC as normal, booted up, format, shutdown, disconnected the cables and booted my PC. But it didn't want to boot(the "instert a boot and press any key" thing). On the bios information screen on what's loading said it DOES detect both of my hdd's (i have a primary blue WD and a secondary black WD), but when i enter the bios config, boot menu, it ONLY finds the black WD. I removed the black WD and tried again. After a fail to boot (the win logo showed up and the PC just shutdown) it booted. I started the WD lifeguard and it did find some bad sectors that it wasn't able to fix (probably because the OS is installed in the hdd). I was able to save my information on my secondary hdd, using another friend's PC by connecting both of the hdd's to his PC. Currently I have connected only the primary hdd to my PC and it looks like it's struggling to work properly. NOTE that there ARE some strange sounds coming ot of the hdd. One of them like really gently hitting a jar. I'll try uploading two recordings.
Is my hard drive giving up on me and is it fixable?
Primary hdd - WesterDigital Caviar Blue 500GB WD5000AAKX Sata 16mb Cache
Secondary hdd - WesterDigital Black 1000GB WD1003FZEX Sata 64mb Cache
I'm also woried can this be caused by my motherboard?

Thanks in advance! Help is really appreciated!
 
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If you're getting bad sectors and its making the sound I think its making... yeah time to back up and buy a new drive. When the drive starts making that kind of dinging sound that I think it is, then it's being kind and telling you to get ready for it to die. Unless you got some ridiculously level of power spike from your motherboard, I don't think you have to worry about that taking out your hard drive. With a HD its generally a matter of when, not if, it'll fail. Luckily they're cheap to replace at this point.
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If you're getting bad sectors and its making the sound I think its making... yeah time to back up and buy a new drive. When the drive starts making that kind of dinging sound that I think it is, then it's being kind and telling you to get ready for it to die. Unless you got some ridiculously level of power spike from your motherboard, I don't think you have to worry about that taking out your hard drive. With a HD its generally a matter of when, not if, it'll fail. Luckily they're cheap to replace at this point.
 
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That's bad. I didn't want to buy more things for this PC as it is too old -.- New parts mean i won't change it soon...
I'll buy a second hand Hitachi 500GB that has no bad sectors and is cheap...
 
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I cannot know how old is the hdd. And those sounds are really bad, doesn't sound like it's fixing itself.
It's not that noisy but worrying. A few minutes ago it the windows displayed a message "hdd failure found, please backup" or something like that...
 
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Many thanks!!
 
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Well i guess it's not dead yet, but will be soon. It does boot when the other hdd is not connected to the motherboard, but then again it struggles.. I connected a old Maxtor 80GB IDE hard drive and i'm installing windows 7 so i can test if the PC has any problems and so i can format the problem giving hdd and see if it will magically fix. In a few days i'm getting a second hand Hitachi one, I hope it doesn't give me any trouble. I'll leave the thread opened for a day or a few if somebody else has any ideas.
Thank you!
 
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