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Drive light is on and makes clicks




By seaiyar on Jun 08, 2009

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I plug the drive into the USB port and the blue circle light is on. It makes a few clicks. But the computer will not recognize the drive.

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posted on Jun 08, 2009
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smartr10U

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Regretfully, Western Digital drives have been known to fail and the sign is a fail to recognize, and the infamous clicking.
I've not found any solution other than attempt data recovery with Disk Warrior or something similar..
There are data recovery companies but they aren't cheap...


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