Hi, my 500 GB WD HDD seems to be having a problem all of a sudden. It's making a clicking noise that I'm unfamiliar with. By looking online, I found several examples of WD clicking sounds but nothing like mine whatsoever.
Examples can be found on these 2 websites:
Here's what mine sounds like (you might have to turn up your volume):
HDD CLICKING
Sorry for the low quality recording as it was done only with my phone, but I hope it's clear enough. To me it sounds like a running train (I don't know if this might help clear things up or not).
The drive is installed on a Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. G31M-S2C (Socket 775) mobo with a Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz processor. I have a CX750M Corsair PSU. There's 3 other WD HDD which are working just fine.
The drive itself won't show in BIOS. It has no OS in it. However it has very important files that I once backed up years ago, but unfortunately the backup drive also died a couple of years ago. So, at this point I do not have any backups whatsoever anymore. I have tried switching ports and cables but it just makes it worst. When I switch the port, the main HDD with the OS will not show as well. When I just pull out the E-SATA cable completely off the mobo, it's there again and I can boot to windows normally. Through disk management, I can see the other 3 HDD, but not the faulty one.
I regularly check all of my HDD using Speccy once a month so that I know if anything is going wrong. As far as I can remember, last month everything showed up as GOOD. Temperatures are fairly normal around 45°C to 54°C.
I know at this point that a clicking HDD means software recovery method won't help. I've had plenty of drive going like that for years. I just would like to know at what state my HDD is exactly at. It would be very nice if someone can actually find me a fix/solution to this. Please do try to help as I desperately need to recover the data.
Let me know if you need more details.
Thank you.
Examples can be found on these 2 websites:
- https://hetmanrecovery.com/recovery_news/identifying-hdd-noise-problems.htm
- https://acsdata.com/why-is-my-hard-drive-clicking/
Here's what mine sounds like (you might have to turn up your volume):
HDD CLICKING
Sorry for the low quality recording as it was done only with my phone, but I hope it's clear enough. To me it sounds like a running train (I don't know if this might help clear things up or not).
The drive is installed on a Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. G31M-S2C (Socket 775) mobo with a Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz processor. I have a CX750M Corsair PSU. There's 3 other WD HDD which are working just fine.
The drive itself won't show in BIOS. It has no OS in it. However it has very important files that I once backed up years ago, but unfortunately the backup drive also died a couple of years ago. So, at this point I do not have any backups whatsoever anymore. I have tried switching ports and cables but it just makes it worst. When I switch the port, the main HDD with the OS will not show as well. When I just pull out the E-SATA cable completely off the mobo, it's there again and I can boot to windows normally. Through disk management, I can see the other 3 HDD, but not the faulty one.
I regularly check all of my HDD using Speccy once a month so that I know if anything is going wrong. As far as I can remember, last month everything showed up as GOOD. Temperatures are fairly normal around 45°C to 54°C.
I know at this point that a clicking HDD means software recovery method won't help. I've had plenty of drive going like that for years. I just would like to know at what state my HDD is exactly at. It would be very nice if someone can actually find me a fix/solution to this. Please do try to help as I desperately need to recover the data.
Let me know if you need more details.
Thank you.