I'm getting the blue screen indicating that the hard disk is going to fail on my Gateway m 6750 laptop. I backed up all of the information, but when I try to reload the operating system, I get a message that it can't read the hard disk. I was thinking that reformatting the hard drive would let me get another year or two out of the machine.

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Hi,

The "clicking" and "disk read error" indicates a hard drive failure.  When the PC boots it can no longer read some files from or the entire HD.  The corrective measure would be to replace the HD and install your OS and programs. Alternately, you may try and reformat then re-install but then you would be operating with an unpredictable storage media and perhaps prolonging the inevitable.

If your reason for Safe Mode is to be able to access your files for purposes of backup, the constant trying/on-off just might worsen the condition of the HD. You can still try recovering by installing the HD in question inside a 2.5 enclosure to USB and install it as a removable device in a 2nd PC where you can try recover files.

Should you install a new HD and install the OS in your Gateway, you actually can use that to try and recover from the old HD. Recovery is 50/50.

Good luck and kind regards.

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The issue can occur if the battery does not work properly or the problem might be even with the hard disk.

I recommend you to try the steps in the below links:

http://support.gateway.com/s/Checklists/BPC/ck2007043065.shtml

http://notebook-solutions.blogspot.com/2009/05/notebook-solutions-notebook-solutions.html

Follow the steps from No Boot or no Power in laptops

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eather the hard drive is bad or a windows program was removed. might need to reinstall windows.

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The ticking sound is known as the "click of death". After a while the bearings in the hard drive get worn down, and the read head has trouble finding the data you want. In this case the drive puts the read head back to "square one" so it can try to trace its steps back to the wanted data. this makes a click noise. Thus the "click of death". Im sorry to say you need a new hard drive, and that your data is likely inaccessible without drastic measures. One method you can try is putting the hard drive in the freezer for 10 minutes. This will stiffen the bearings and may give you a couple of minutes to grab some data. You will want to have your new drive installed and windows loaded on it so you can readily access the data through a usb to sata/ide cable, which you can get on line fairly cheap. Other options are services like OnTrack, who have a team of engineers who open drives and pull the platters and try to get your data, but you are looking at thousands of dollars just for them to try.

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