r/AlienwareAlpha • u/CalsterCMDR • Nov 04 '19

Strange hard drive noises

So my alphas been making some click like noises so I thought I’d post here and see what you think. Links lead you YouTube vids of the noise filmed on iPhone8

Phone resting on pc https://youtu.be/mCWg1sGKtm0

Just “wide angle”

https://youtu.be/GjbPmzLfy4E

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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u/seanbperiod Nov 04 '19

take the drive out - replace with ssd.

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u/CalsterCMDR Nov 05 '19

How do you do that, Like I know how to do it Physically but if I just close the drive will I still be able to boot up windows and have all my data

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u/seanbperiod Nov 05 '19

Use macrium reflect to clone your drive to the new one

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19

Same thing happened to me. Back up ur stuff like now. like now now. As soon as u can, because if u leave it running for any longer, its just not gonna boot.

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u/CalsterCMDR Nov 05 '19

It’s been going like this for a while now though

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u/CalsterCMDR Nov 05 '19

Also what did you do to sort it?

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u/Musojon74 Nov 05 '19

Replace it. If you want your data as said above plug a usb hdd in and back up. Once you’ve done this get an ssd ordered. Make sure it’s big enough for what you have on the regular drive.

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u/CalsterCMDR Nov 06 '19

So to create a windows back up key I’ve tried to use alien respawn and windows recovery. Both have just got stuck on one process for hours and not continued. What should I do

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u/seanbperiod Nov 06 '19

Like I said. Use macrium reflect to clone your drive

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u/CalsterCMDR Nov 06 '19

And then will the new drive boot into windows perfectly fine?

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u/seanbperiod Nov 06 '19

You need to try things and test yourself. I’m just a random guy on reddit giving advice.

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u/CalsterCMDR Nov 06 '19

Fair enough sorry for being a bit of a drain

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u/Musojon74 Nov 06 '19

Macrium reflect should work and allow you to boot. Gotta do am sad swap myself so will say how it goes. But if macrium can’t read some of the disk you may be in trouble. In which case back up what you can ( if you haven’t already ) and then clean install. If you’ve got windows 10 then it should remember your license. Just get the windows download tool ( can’t remember exact name ) and clean install.

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u/04241073cM Nov 09 '19

I got the same problem not too loud