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Originally Posted by Vaanish  The problem at startup sounds like the first one, only it is rapid, and with no breaks in between the sounds. |
backup your data asap and buy a new harddrive.
esp since the clicking doesnt have breaks. that means that yes the head is going bad. and windows is probably trying to map the bad sectors out every time it boots.
it is impossible to know how much longer till the drive fails completely. could be a day, a few minutes. years <shrug>