HDD sata making strange sound , windows won't boot

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Hi ,
My laptop do not boot after opening HDD case. I tried to install new windows , but I get notification ( Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The disk may fail soon. If other hard disks are available, install Windows in another location ) . I uploaded small video via google drive where HDD is running , does it's have to sound like this ? if someone knows options how to solve this problem and can share that with me I would be very thankful.

 

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That does sound like a hard drive in trouble.

This website has a bunch of sound bytes of various makes of hard drive to help you decide whether it is in fact failing / near death:



Would be worth your while comparing their sound bytes to the sound you are hearing.
 
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I've had hard drives sound just like. Could be a bad read/write head. Unfortunately you'll most likely have to replace it. It's sounds like the disk is failing the SMART test, if you're getting that message on boot.
 
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HDDs are usually assembled or worked on in "clean rooms", can't have any dust in them. I've taken a few apart and they have always had a screw in the middle of the cover that stabilized the spinning platters, removing that screw can upset the functions essentially destroying the HDD. It's a purposeful action in taking that cover off and results in a disaster. And that's a lot of the reason the label covers that screw, keep users away from it.
 
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First i would - boot to safe mode -chkdsk c:\ /f say y then reboot
also several program i have used in the past - takes a bit of time but has saved old HDDs enough to CLONE. then you have nothing to loose.
best of luck.
 

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