Disaster!

[brilliantcat]

I may have mentioned that I had a corrupt disc that contained the Drop's neighborhood.  I tried to get it off my old comp but it seems it won't even boot at all.  Either the PC or the monitor isn't working, I don't know which, but on at least one attempt to boot it, I got the nasty BIOS noise so I suspect the comp is dead.  I don't have time to

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[thiskindofchaos]

My last comp went implodely last year and I thought the same thing, that all my sims were gone. I found out it was the motherboard or the power source that was screwy though, and my harddrive should be fine. So I bought an enclosure (not a tower), put the harddrive in there, and now it runs like an external harddrive. I was able to get everybody back. It might worth a try, if you're not sure the harddrive is gone?

[bondchick_nett]

I completely second thiskindofchaos's suggestion of checking to see if this is possible. If it is then it'll be SO AWESOME for you - and for us really! *selfish* ;) :D :D

*hughug*

[brooke_82]

Oh no, that completely sucks.
But as the above ppls said, if the hard drive isn't dead then you at least still have a chance to get all your stuffs back.

Good luck with it all, I know it can be painful.

[engram_au]

The "click of death" does sound like the death knell for the HDD... But see if you can attach the drive via cable to your new PC and copy over the hood and your downloads folder. Don't try to boot from it, just attach it as an extra drive via an IDE slot or whatever it is. Chances are the drive or parts of it may be failing so it won't boot, but you may be able to access the data via Windows Explorer and salvage your data even if the boot sector/BIOS is dead.

[dragancaor]

Grab yourself a hard drive caddy & plug the drive into that, then usb/firewire/esata connect it to your new PC. Even if the drive has Windows on it, you will be able to read if (assuming the drive itself is able to spin up).
Then it's just a matter of waiting for the data to transfer off that drive onto the new PC.

If there isn't anything wrong with the drive, format it & use it as extra storage once you've got all the data off it =)