yep, it surely could happen on a new computer...that clicking sound you heard is a sign the drive is overheating....possibly a fan in the machine died, possibly a bad HDD...IMHO (and many others in the 'know') current HDDs are a bunch of junk made to die early so that you have to get another..

oh, and as a 'detail' your HDD is not erased, the data is still there, but because it has overheated it is wacked....you might even be successful in just letting it sit overnight and seeing if it will boot up then...

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