Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[choco123]

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12
MB: Asus M4A785D-M PRO
OS: Windows 7

Yesterday I came home after a few days and started my computer as usual, using it for about an hour when I got asked if I wanted to play SC2 with a couple of friends. After playing for about a minute Skype started acting weird and finally crashed. I had experienced this before, so I just rebooted and tried again. This time SC2 wouldn't even start, crashing my system while in the loading screen. As I could not access the task manager, I had to shut down my pc.

When I started it again, the BIOS did not recognize my main-HDD anymore. After a couple of retries I installed windows on another HDD and that's how I'm online now.
I might be able to test the Seagate on another PC in a couple of days, but not right now.
When the Seagate is attached to the mainboard, it slows down the BIOS by A LOT. Also, when starting there are a few short clicking sounds, does this imply mechanical damage?

What would you advise me to do/What else could I try? I read that flashing BIOS might help, what do you think?

[Hammey]

Hi yes if it is under warranty get it replaced as you will never be able to trust it. Just a note I see many people say can you try it on another pc well in my thinking that is just crazy. Example you take your craped out HDD to your buddys plug it in to try it and blow his board nice. Get it replaced

[fzabkar]

If it clicks 11 times, then that is a symptom of an internal fault, probably bad heads or media.