On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Tony Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Michael: >> I would boot from a CDROM. If everything worked, then I would be very >> suspicious of the disk. >> Wayne > > > I agree with Wayne. You'll need to verify that your BIOS is set to boot > from the CD first. > > This link (should you have access to a computer that can view it, hmmm.... > how ARE you getting to this mailing list?) has a nice little video about the > hard drive 'click of death' which you can use for comparison to the sounds > that you hear from your drive. > > http://www.techwarelabs.com/community/showthread.php?p=71251
Thanks all. I will try booting from the CD-ROM first (the BIOS is set to boot from the CD first) -- would've tried that already, except that I didn't have time this morning. If that works, then I'll try putting in a new drive and see if I can get anywhere. And I'll check out the video, when I get over to the library later. At the moment, I'm using a computer at an office I sometimes do some work at. Sigh ... should be an interesting afternoon/evening. Michael _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
