Hard drive making ominous clicking sounds

[Duncan MacGregor]

I have had USB drives do that when the power supply was too weak. 

Duncan

On Thursday 17 June 2010 00:38:42 Tyler Aviss wrote:
> Tick or a click? Could be the needle bouncing off
>
> On 2010-06-16 9:37 PM, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>  And when it does, the drive light flashes, and programs freeze for a
> couple of seconds.  I've done the necessary updating to bring my backup
> machine online as a full replacement, so I'm OK for now.  Does this
> sound like a hard drive about to die?
>
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