Click of Death

November 2, 2009 | Posted by harddriveclicking

The click of death normally happens when the hard drive heads cannot tell where the tracks required are on the platter(s).  This causes the heads to keep moving until the actuator arm that holds the heads hit a physical stop.  The click of death sound that you hear is the sound made when the actuator [...]

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