collision im startingg to think your running a op directly from a cd and had never had a hhd in your pc O_o
HDD’s NORMALLY don’t overheat…
But then again… it’s called 'over’heating because it’s heating more than it normally should.
If they generate heat, there’s no reason to think that it’s impossible that they get too hot 
I have a 10,000 RPM Velociraptor as a boot drive.
If any HDD will overheat, it’s that one, and it doesn’t go a degree over 32 Celsius.
They don’t overheat and cause problems… They overheat BECAUSE they have a problem
Unless you wrap them in isolating foam or something… that’s asking for trouble.
It’s the low end hard drives that overheat, the one’s who’s disk spinning isn’t designed to be frictionless. They spin at a lower speed, but because they spend less on them, they heat up more.
Yeah, I have a 140mm intake fan blowing straight onto both my 70GB boot and 1TB storage drives and through to my vid card.
Airflow management is essential.
or try buying a new one since a hard drive with problems is unreliable
Wait, OP, what brand do you use?
Seagate, WD, Maxtor?
The motor in HDD suffers fatal damage over around 60-70C, over that and componenets that dont have the room swell, when that happens, they warp and crush each other. Its rare that a drive will go over 50-something-C unless something is seriously wrong with the drive.
Old drivers do tend to get a bit warm though,
All right. Old drivers can overheat if they’re pushed enough. That’s because they weren’t made to withstand all the shit we put them through nowadays. The driver from my old DOS computer once crashed when it overheated from playing Dark Forces for 10 hours straight. Newer HDD models, though more powerful, are built for that shit, and can withstand it.
As for the current issue at hand, the clicking sound definitely sounds like your drive is fried. Not from overheating or STALKER, since it’s a newer HDD model.
if you have a small case with bad temperature conditions( hot graphiccard, etc. )
then the HDD can overheat too.
Also, if the vent is caked with dust, of course it will overheat.
Recently, if you’re using Saegate, there is a range of drives that was recently brought out, 500gb ones but may be bigger or smaller too. There is a 45% chance of them failing but if they do, you can send to drive to Saegate and they’ll recover the data free and give you a new hard drive. My brother and I have these. They both failed, his permanently but we maniged to save the data on mine. They can go at any time. Of cource if you’re not using one of these Saegate drives then disregard eveything I’ve said.
At the risk of sounding like a spam bot, the only tool I trust for checking out HDDs and in most cases repairing them, even when nothing else can, is SpinRite from https://www.grc.com/.
Check out the testimonials for some idea of the things it can fix.
(And in case you are wondering, yes this has been around for nearly as long as HDDs, and hasn’t changed in a while coz there’s no bugs left to fix - he got them all already.)