Mylaptop Dell latitude 600 makes keeps makeing a cliking noeis and won,t boot up i need help.

Try booting into safe mode.

A hard drive will work almost anywhere as long as you have the correct connection or adapter. You also need to make sure BIOS recognizes it if internal.

You need to boot up with a Recovery CD for your model Dell laptop.
You can get a Recovery CD from the Dell WEB site.
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen

none of those answers are even close to the real one.. jesus christ.. does no one review this stuff?

what kind of noises does it make, beeping, clicking, a muttered plan about slaughtering all humans?
if beeping, check to make sure that your ram is properly seated, (unscrew the cover on back pop it out and put it back in make sure it snaps into place).
If clicking, probably the hard drive (i had the same problem on mine) the good news is its pretty easy to swap out, the bad news is you might not be able to salvage anything on the old one. (now is when you will feel really smart if you have been doing regular backups)
If computer is muttering about killing all humans, unplug it remove the battery and contact local exorcist. hope this is helpful

Hi,
This is true that you need to press the right buttons at the right time or else it will not work. Please make sure no changes have been made to the computer and its Hard Drive. Follow the instructions as under:

1. Make sure the laptop is properly turned off.
2. Connect the AC adaptor and turn on the laptop
3. Immediately press the "Ctrl" key and while keeping it pressed start tapping (keep hitting) the "F11" key you should get the Restore screen with various options to restore and repair the computer.

Hope you find this solution helpful.
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hello, seems like your hard drive have errors. replace the hard drive and reinstall the computer and your computer gonna work.

Reseat the harddrive (take out the screw and slide it in and out)

You can run diagnostics, during startup (just after Dell logo) press F12,then select Boot to Utility partition, or Diagnostic partition.

It may reveal you issue

Hope this helps

Try to boot from the Safe mode with networking. Restart system and keep taping F8 until you get the option for the safe mode with networking. If it can browse to the Internet. You have following issues. 1. Your Ant- virus is blocking the signal 2. a program is preventing it. 3. You got a virus

Did you download the latest drivers from dell web page? I had a similar problem with my Dell D620. The problem was the chipset drivers. I downloaded the chipset drivers from dell and the the problem disappeared.