Kage
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My dads mate's 1TB drive has just packed up, with A LOT on it, and I mean A LOT.
He has given it to us to see what I can do. Its an external drive, so it plugs into USB, and is made by Western Digital.
When you plug it in, the device is recognised by Windows, as an external drive with that unplug logo on the taskbar, and appears as if it'd work, yet no drive appears in Explorer.
Meanwhile, the drive itself powers up and starts to click....a pause, and then a click. After around 6 clicks, the clicking stops, and I can still hear the drive spinning if I put my head close, though not very audiable.
What should I do? Open the external drive up and place the drive in my computer and test it that way?
Any advice would be appreciated, and many thanks to you. If I can get this up, I can simply copy the data from this to a 1.5TB I've been given to back up to.
Any way of accessing the data before Windows starts if its mad like that?
It doesn't have Windows or anything on it though. Its purely used as a data drive.
He has given it to us to see what I can do. Its an external drive, so it plugs into USB, and is made by Western Digital.
When you plug it in, the device is recognised by Windows, as an external drive with that unplug logo on the taskbar, and appears as if it'd work, yet no drive appears in Explorer.
Meanwhile, the drive itself powers up and starts to click....a pause, and then a click. After around 6 clicks, the clicking stops, and I can still hear the drive spinning if I put my head close, though not very audiable.
What should I do? Open the external drive up and place the drive in my computer and test it that way?
Any advice would be appreciated, and many thanks to you. If I can get this up, I can simply copy the data from this to a 1.5TB I've been given to back up to.
Any way of accessing the data before Windows starts if its mad like that?
It doesn't have Windows or anything on it though. Its purely used as a data drive.