I'm getting a noise from my hard drive click

Original title: I'm a my hard drive clicking noise and have to wipe and reinstall Windows. How can I do this?

Hi my name is Brendan Dwyer, and I'm the kind again on this Forum

I have a laptop with pre-installed en OEM Windows Vista Home Basic-we

My laptop brand and model is a

Fujitsu Siemens

ESPRIMO Mobile V5535

And I think that I have to wipe my hard drive and install OEM Windows 7 it's because my HD keeps clicking on so I think I have to wipe completely with DBAN

Hello

If you get a 'click' sound in your hard drive, I would suggest that you test and replace if necessary,

http://www.Seagate.com/WW/v/index.jsp?locale=en-us&name=SeaTools&vgnextoid=720bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

If you do not have to replace it, there should be a recovery partition on this drive to make recovery disks and use to reinstall Vista.

Contact the manufacturer to find out the exaxct of keys to press start to start the factory of this partition recovery.

For a small price, you can also buy a set of recovery of them discs to reinstall Vista.

See you soon.

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