Like I said, one ink cartridge can cause its neighbor to appear faulty. Always try them by themselves with the other cartridges removed to test.
Yeah, it takes an eternity to 'prepare' the printheads. Meanwhile it's dumping a ton of ink into the service station.
The clicking sound is the primer on the side of the service station. Usually when it gets stuck in this mode it's because of a printhead. Remove the printheads and start the printer, then go through the process of installing the printheads again.
You probably just have a bad printhead. Sometimes the plastic that carries the electrical circuit down to the nozzles separates from around the nozzles and can cause interference with the service station. Looks like this:
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If the printheads are all the originals, and this printer sat somewhere unused for a long time, I would just flat out replace all 3. Even if you do get past getting them initialized I would suspect there to be a lot of nozzles out due to them sitting.
I wouldn't replace the hard drive. Nothing you've described suggests it's at fault. Make sure the contacts that mate with the ink cartridges are clean and not covered in ink. It sounds like the cyan or other cartridge is really the bad one but making the yellow misbehave. They're all connected through a matrix so as I said, one cartridge can cause another to appear faulty or do odd things.
Kiran
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