External hard drive vibrating ang not detected by my PC or TV

[DrekGrey]

Pls help My External Harx Drive keeps vibrating and it's not being detected by my PC and I can't open the drive with my TV

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there DrekGrey,

That is unpleasant. 🙁

What do you mean by vibrating? Is the vibrating the same way as always, or it is making some unusual sounds?

Do you have a spare USB cable? It would be nice to attach the drive with another cable to a different computer. That way, you will rule out a possible connection related issue.

If the issue persists, you can go to Disk Management and see how is the drive recognized over there. In case it has damaged partitions/file system, you can see if you will be able to recover the data with some partition/data recovery software.

Once you've done that, you can check the drive's health status out: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility

Let me know how this goes,
D_Know_WD