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Master/Slave doesn't mean anything other than "Drive 1" and "Drive 2", so it's not like the slave drive is really "secondary" in how it works. If the drive is seriously hosed, then it could prevent your computer from booting up by sending garbled information to the motherboard.
Clicking noises are not good. You could try putting it in another computer to see if that motherboard is less finicky.
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