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The click of doom...

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PowerYoga

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Hi Guys,

A while ago I ran into a peculiar issue. My external drive (an old 500 GB) started clicking when I powered it on, and everyone knows when that happens the drive is pretty much toast. So I took the drive out of the enclosure, trying to see if there's anything I can do to salvage it. I first decided to slap that drive in the computer and see what happens.

Magically, it wasn't clicking and I was able to back up everything onto another drive.

Then I stuck it into a Harddrive reader... it didn't click but it also didn't show up.

This was a drive that was being used for small backups maybe once every other month. Is the drive toast? Or did the enclosure somehow cause the clicking?
 
I recently had an internal drive start clicking. I took it out and installed it in a external enlcosure and I was able to get the data off of it. It has been sitting ever since but recently I just installed it and it does not click anymore and still works fine.

Although I would not trust it for your important data.
 
It sounds dead to me.

It appears that it has suffered the proverbial "click of death", made famous by the now-defunct IBM "deathstar" hard drives.

Perhaps if you cryogenically freeze the drive in an external icebox you will be able to use it again. D:

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

:whiste:
 
I have seen external drives power supply or the "little board" inside die causing drives to click because the power was intermittent.
 
I was able to get my data off it, didn't need to freeze it or anything. (just knocked it on the side lightly with a screwdriver)

I'll never trust the drive again, but if its indeed the old enclosure causing the problem... might as well throw both away?

Seems sad to have to throw away both because I don't know which one's to blame.

Maybe I'll use the HDD to setup an ubuntu server to play around... 😀
 
PowerYoga said:
I was able to get my data off it, didn't need to freeze it or anything. (just knocked it on the side lightly with a screwdriver)

I'll never trust the drive again, but if its indeed the old enclosure causing the problem... might as well throw both away?

Seems sad to have to throw away both because I don't know which one's to blame.

Maybe I'll use the HDD to setup an ubuntu server to play around... 😀
Click to expand...

Many here will say never trust it... I personally just grab the factory diag software and run a burn in on it for a few days to a week.

I am actually doing that right now. My WHS server keeps having one HDD fall out of the drive pool. I am now suspecting something else because the drive that "fails" has been running for 4 days doing repeated 'extended diagnostics' in the Western digital test tool on a second machine.
 
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