there are several
methods to ultimately
conclude / prove the hard drive
has failed. and eliminating
cmos faults would be a
logical one to take. you
know what a cmos virus
can do.

so simply because there is
a funny noise is not a
100% guarantee that it
is coming from the hd.

if the o.p. was a technician,
then he would have recognize
without a doubt what the noise
is, where its coming from and
then knew already what is required
of him in order to resolve the issue,
rather than asking us.

further, making these
little attempts to validate
a mal function, might even
overcome a situation briefly,
like VGreen's mentioned as
a courtesy.

so i have my methods and
provide them as a courtesy.

also i recall you have yours and
can provide them in your own
sub thread.

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"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> db ´¯`·.. ><)))º>` .. . wrote:
>> i would have taken the
>> battery out from the
>> cmos and ensure the
>> regular power pack is
>> out too.
>
> This will do nothing to help a dead hard drive or a bad motherboard
> controller. All taking out the CMOS battery does (which btw is often quite
> difficult to do on a laptop, depends on the model) is reset BIOS settings to
> default. It won't magically make the machine see a dead hard drive.
>
>
> Malke
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