Computer making clicking noise,now stopped.

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paladinyogi

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Hello,

I made a post earlier about my computer making a clicking noise and it being slow,at first,I thought it was the Hard Drive going.(I had just downloaded a game,and it said it wasn't done yet,it was at 100% but hadn't finished doing something)

But now,it's working fine again,no clicking noises,and no slowness,it's working fine and I can play my games and boot up any programs.

But my question is,should I continue using my computer,or should I stop and order a new hard drive and put all the information on my current hard drive onto the new one? (How would I do that by the way)

Thanks,any help would be appreciated!
 
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If it isn't too much of a financial burden go ahead and get a new hard drive. The hard drive manufacturers have software you can download from their web sites that enables you to "clone" one drive to another. Using that software you can create a second bootable hard drive with exactly the same data and programs that are on the older drive.

Consider the newer drive a backup drive, disconnect the power cord from the new drive, and continue to use your older drive. The older drive will fail at some point in the future so you will have a bootable backup when it does fail. As long as the older drive is working OK back it up to the newer drive occasionally. Consider it insurance against a failure that will definitely happen sometime in the...
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If it isn't too much of a financial burden go ahead and get a new hard drive. The hard drive manufacturers have software you can download from their web sites that enables you to "clone" one drive to another. Using that software you can create a second bootable hard drive with exactly the same data and programs that are on the older drive.

Consider the newer drive a backup drive, disconnect the power cord from the new drive, and continue to use your older drive. The older drive will fail at some point in the future so you will have a bootable backup when it does fail. As long as the older drive is working OK back it up to the newer drive occasionally. Consider it insurance against a failure that will definitely happen sometime in the future.

When the older drive fails just remove it, reconnect the newer drive's power cord, and boot straight to your last backup.
 
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