Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB Problem?

[dennis96411]

I just came back from a 10-day vacation today, and thought I plug in my external hard drive. When I did, it made clicking noises a few times. I thought it was just from not accessing it for so long. Then I went into Computer, and was unable to find it. I unplugged the hard drive then plug it in again, still nothing. It wouldn't read! Is it corrupted? All my stuff is on that! :crying:

If it is, I might have to break open the case and get the hard drive out, and try to recover it from there, because about 90% of the time when someone sends in a defect hard drive, they will only get a new one, not getting their data back [from what I see].

 

[FrozenIpaq]

Sounds like hardware failure / physical damage to the drive. Try different USB ports and different computers if possible just to rule those issues out as well.

 

[dennis96411]

Wait, I plugged it into my old laptop, and it works, but it still won't work on my new laptop.

UPDATE: Now running chkdsk through my old laptop.

 

[x3sphere]

Wait, I plugged it into my old laptop, and it works, but it still won't work on my new laptop.

UPDATE: Now running chkdsk through my old laptop.

I would've backed up all data before running chkdsk. Too late for that now, though. Hope everything is intact.

 

[dennis96411]

There's no way I could've backed up anything, my old laptop's hard drive is too small. Also, when I start my computer up with the external hard drive plugged in, it would show "NTLDR missing" [I had the USB devices to boot before the internal hard drive].

 

[dennis96411]

ZOMG fixed it! After some intense researching on the internet, I went into Disk Management and assigned the drive a letter, and bam! I'm back in business!

 

[Darkchild]

Problem solved, thread locked!