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By wescottba on Apr 24, 2008

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my hard drive is clicking and not being read.

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Oct 15, 2008

-   I got the same problem with my Trekstor.
I just had a powerout in my neighbourhood.
After the power had been restored, I started up my PC.
My external HD went berzerk and refuses to start up.
Please help me!!
The clicking sound drives me insane.
-   icternol

Oct 07, 2008

-   I have a Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB that is doing the same thing. -   remek421

Apr 25, 2008

-   i have a maxtor 200G with the same problem and i can hear this small clicking sound inside like its trying to work but its just not-   RylonJones

Solution #1

posted on Nov 03, 2008
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i had the same problem after it fell over.
i gave it a smack and it started working... i know this is extreme and sounds ridiculous, but it worked


Solution #2

posted on Apr 25, 2008
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dilipbagdi

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it might be because of virus,that stop you to enter your hard disk when you click on it..install anti virus like avg 7.5,mcafee ,norton to check for the virus .

also goto start >open Run>cmd to open command prompt and type
chkdsk
to check your driver for errors.



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Solution #3

posted on Oct 30, 2009
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bob8310

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i am having the same problem i have a wd200 20 gb hard drive it clicks when computer is turned. and it says detecting ide and stayes ther for ever and never turns on and so i just decided that it was bad so your external is probably burned

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Solution #4

posted on Nov 29, 2008
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zzptichka

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Virus cannot cause hard drive to click. Most likely it has bad heads. This site should help you better diagnose the problem.

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Solution #5

posted on Nov 03, 2008
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yuser2

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