Patricia, is there any valuable data on the drive? This is how a hard drive fails, it clicks and then it crashes. The remedy is to replace the drive. If you buy a new drive then it will come with software to move the data from the old drive to the new drive.
Peter Kaulback In the hour of 01:36 PM 4/29/2002 -0400, patricia spoke this: >hi to all... > >on a PC I have that is running Windows ME - I started hearing a clicking >sound like something being switched on and off... this has been going on for >about a week... just now though -- I heard it do it repeatedly... >in the past I thought that it was probably just the phone line doing a >redial... but just now it started doing it and continued... and then began >clicking with a 1 second delay then clicking with a one second delay and >over and over and over again... so I restarted the computer and got the >following message (it flashed quick so I am not sure of the entire message): >missing KRNL 386 > >this system prior to today had been running fine for weeks... > >I started getting a message a few days ago on reboots that Windows had found >some software (to upgrade I suppose) -- but I have always been clicking >cancel on that --- is there a problem that I am unaware of that would mean I >should have clicked YES when prompted by that WINDOWS SOFTWARE question ?? > >or are these two independent occurances that are not related to the clicking >problem I am experiencing now ?? > >the computer will bring up the desktop -- but then stops (freezes) -- the >clicking continues... > >any suggestions ?? > > thanks in advance for your help (smile) > > ~Patti ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
