My Mack book Pro Hard Drive won't work

    I recently dropped a book onto my Macbook Pro. Now the hard drive disk drive is making a clicking sound and all that happens when I turn it on is a blank white screen. Any diagnostic and suggestions would be apprectiated
-Thanks

The last 17" MBP was the late 2011 model.
That aside, try to boot into the recovery partition (COMMAND + R)
From the 4 option menu, select Disk Utility.
Run Disk Utility>First Aid, Verify and Repair.
If the disk cannot be repaired, a new one will have to be installed.
Ciao.

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