hey my system has a slave and a master hdd. the slave is about 5 yrs old. i got the master last yr cus sector 0 on the slave is corrupted. latley whenever i turn on the pc, a clicking sound comes from the slave and then i get a message that says SEC SLAVE HDD ERROR, and it says press F1 to resume. after this it goes to the boot screen and boots up. after loading, my master hdd is nowhere to be found. not in my computer, hardware management and i cant run D:\, not finding it. please help me i need to kno the problems here before anything worse happens. all my data is on the slave, which i cant afford to lose. thx
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Jump to PostWhat you are hearing is referred to as the click of death.
Are you sure that the noise is coming from the old hdd?
Jump to PostWhat are you seeing in the BIOS? Are both drives listed?
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