Laptop makes clicking noises and won't boot up

[thebooali]

So my laptop makes clicking noises every time I turn it on and when it eventually does, the laptop only shows me the Toshiba logo then asks me to put in a disc or CD. I made a Windows 8 CD so I could reinstall windows but once it I come to the part where it asks me which drive I want to install it on I can't see my 600 GB HDD. Does this mean my HDD is damaged and I would have to replace it with a new one?

 

[DSzymborski]

Combine the clicking and the behavior and a dying hard drive would be my best guess.

 

[77]

According to the clicks you can compare them to Datacent's Dying HDD Sound Library, and yes, it's probably dead. To prevent further damage I recommend plugging it out

 

[USAFRet]

So my laptop makes clicking noises every time I turn it on and when it eventually does, the laptop only shows me the Toshiba logo then asks me to put in a disc or CD. I made a Windows 8 CD so I could reinstall windows but once it I come to the part where it asks me which drive I want to install it on I can't see my 600 GB HDD. Does this mean my HDD is damaged and I would have to replace it with a new one?

All the symptoms of a dead drive.
Time to replace.