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External Hard Drive Dying a Death

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  • 21-06-2015 10:47pm
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    Chavways
    Registered Users Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭


    Hey,

    Hoping someone here can help me with this. I have a 1TB USB 3.0 Western Digital external hard drive. I've been using it for the last 2 years to store videos I've edited. Long story short, it has started to die over the last few months. When I plug it in I can hear the drive clicking and spinning at an awful rate but it still take about 5 minutes for it to be discovered by the laptop and be usable.

    Last week I tried plugging it into the USB on the laptop again and it gives a little beep indicating a device has been detected but it never shows up in My Computer or even when I go into Device Manager. I'm still able to safety eject it and whatever but I can't actually access the files on it.

    Any ideas on how I could get it to work. Drivers are up to date. I have purchased a new external hard drive so I only need to fire it up once to get the stuff off it. Thank you in advance!


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    #2
    mordeith
    Registered Users Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    Chavways wrote: »
    Hey,

    Hoping someone here can help me with this. I have a 1TB USB 3.0 Western Digital external hard drive. I've been using it for the last 2 years to store videos I've edited. Long story short, it has started to die over the last few months. When I plug it in I can hear the drive clicking and spinning at an awful rate but it still take about 5 minutes for it to be discovered by the laptop and be usable.

    Last week I tried plugging it into the USB on the laptop again and it gives a little beep indicating a device has been detected but it never shows up in My Computer or even when I go into Device Manager. I'm still able to safety eject it and whatever but I can't actually access the files on it.

    Any ideas on how I could get it to work. Drivers are up to date. I have purchased a new external hard drive so I only need to fire it up once to get the stuff off it. Thank you in advance!

    Always worth trying on another laptop / pc. Might not make a difference though. You could also try and remove hd from case and plug it directly into a pc if you have accessed to one.
    Hope it works out and you've not left it too late.


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    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,748 ✭✭✭degsie


    There ia a dieing/dead hdd expert here on boards who should be along shortly.


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    #4
    Chris_Bradley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,818 ✭✭✭Chris_Bradley


    Once them HD's start clicking it's essential to backup what's on it because its usually the start of the end for it.


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