OtakuSama Posted November 19, 2016 Report Share Posted November 19, 2016 My WD 3TB My Book Studio is making a clicking sound and is unable to connect my computer for some reason do i need to take it to a geek squad to fixed the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerangers Posted November 19, 2016 Report Share Posted November 19, 2016 how is it connected top ur computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtakuSama Posted November 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2016 connect though my usb 3.0 port on my computer that how.... but that is not the point the issue is i can't access my hard drive and it still making clicking sound Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchallMann1978 Posted November 19, 2016 Report Share Posted November 19, 2016 2 hours ago, OtakuSama said: My WD 3TB My Book Studio is making a clicking sound and is unable to connect my computer for some reason do i need to take it to a geek squad to fixed the problem? The Geek Squad doesn't cover data recovery, I'm afraid. The real question here is did you drop the hard drive by accident?  -Is it an AC Adaptable hard drive, or is it a portable USB hard drive that you can take anywhere with ease? Additionally, how old is your hard drive?? I ask because this afternoon, my blue, portable, 1 TB, Western Digital My Passport hard drive that I've had since September, 2011 suddenly had Delayed Write Failure, and ultimately died on me. While I did lose 60 gigabytes worth of files in that drive (some of which were irreplaceable) I was not entirely worried, or panicked because I had a backup of them, and even rebuilt the drive's directory from my backup, which had additional files that weren't in the drive that crashed. Now, as for the clicking sounds on a hard drive?  -Usually, it's a telltale sign that the hard drive has failed.  However, that's not always the case.  -Have you tried using a different USB Cable to connect to the hard drive??  Sometimes USB cables go bad and can't supply enough power to the hard drive, causing it to act improperly. If not, I'd suggest doing so.  If it still clicks with a different cable, it's probably on its way out.  You could try recovery software to recover your files, but that's not always guaranteed, like in my case, with the dead hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtakuSama Posted November 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2016 I open my hardrive to see if anything is damage but doesn't seem there is no sign of damage to the platter plate and the head reader is at the resting place so that is a good sign but for some reason the head reader is not engaging to the platter plate is it possible to fixed the head reader part? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchallMann1978 Posted November 20, 2016 Report Share Posted November 20, 2016 That does not sound good at all; it sounds like your drive may've failed, OtakuSama... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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