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Originally Posted by htnakirs
You can't.
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That's pretty much the case. The 'knocking' and 'winding down' sounds are caused by a physical fatal error in the drive unit (e.g. a head crashed or the motor fried), and the HDD ROM attempting to initialize it. When it can't be initialized, the HDD ROM gets stuck in an endless loop and won't talk to BIOS, or anything else.