Hard drives fail sooner or later.
The message and clicking sound are all too familiar.
From what you describe, it sounds as if the hard drive has failed.
The computer is telling that the drive is not functioning. The clicking sound is the reason why.
Hello all! Have a HP and when I go to turn it on I get the basic HP Blue Screen logo when I power up & then it gives me a "disk boot failure, insert system disk & press enter". The moment I power it on I start to hear a clicking noise. Bought in 2001 and has XP Home on it. HP provided no disks when I bought, so had to order from them. Have been told by a couple friends that sounds like the Hard Drive is toast, that is what the clicking noise is. Was just going to replace the hard drive, anything I should know about trying this? HP said they were sending me like 9 disks?!?! Help!!

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