external hard drive died?

[get these nets]

have an external hard drive that I kept important scans on

this is the model

Western Digital 1 TB Passport

made weird sound last time I tried to open up files, heard spinning but drive was never recognized by pc


am i just out of luck or is there a fix?

thanks in advance


yes,I'm a dinosaur and prefer to archive things offline

 

[Alexander The Great]

hope you get an answer. I had the same thing happen to TWO WD HDs a few years ago

 

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[Tunez]

Data recovery, do it yourself or have professionals take a look

 

[Address_Unknown]

That's why you got back your shyt up. The amount of legendary piff/programs/porn/pictures I've lost off the strength of my drives giving up the ghost randomly on me...fukkING...HURTS.

I still got multiple dead drives on a shelf, hoping that one day I'll get a chance to recover some of that shyt. But anyways, onto your question.

Your shyt is clicking, which definately means it's giving up the ghost. The computer might not recognize it everytime, but if it ever does, keep it very still and SAVE EVERY fukkING THING YOU CAN.

I got lucky with one drive and did that.

As far as Data Recovery goes.......I'd rather someone I knew personally to do the shyt for me 'cause the shyt I've got saved..... Nah. I don't need that out in the public for shyt.

Outside of that, the two methods I used worked (For me atleast) So you may want to try the second one, because the first is sort of impractical.

The first method, I kinda noticed that whenever I plugged in my drive, it would click and whir, but if I squeezed it down, shyt would start rumbling as opposed to clicking and I got it to work. I might have gotten lucky with that one, but I took everything I could off of it and breathed easy.

The second method, a breh of mine did for me, but he basically pulled the HD out of it's box and put it into one of these.

And we managed to boot it up and pull all my shyt off of it.

Things to consider, but I hope you get your shyt breh, 'cause losing data on a drive....is just fukking tough.

 

[R=G]

These threads always have weak answers...lol

 

[Tunez]

That's why you got back your shyt up. The amount of legendary piff/programs/porn/pictures I've lost off the strength of my drives giving up the ghost randomly on me...fukkING...HURTS.

I still got multiple dead drives on a shelf, hoping that one day I'll get a chance to recover some of that shyt. But anyways, onto your question.

Your shyt is clicking, which definately means it's giving up the ghost. The computer might not recognize it everytime, but if it ever does, keep it very still and SAVE EVERY fukkING THING YOU CAN.

I got lucky with one drive and did that.

As far as Data Recovery goes.......I'd rather someone I knew personally to do the shyt for me 'cause the shyt I've got saved..... Nah. I don't need that out in the public for shyt.

Outside of that, the two methods I used worked (For me atleast) So you may want to try the second one, because the first is sort of impractical.

The first method, I kinda noticed that whenever I plugged in my drive, it would click and whir, but if I squeezed it down, shyt would start rumbling as opposed to clicking and I got it to work. I might have gotten lucky with that one, but I took everything I could off of it and breathed easy.

The second method, a breh of mine did for me, but he basically pulled the HD out of it's box and put it into one of these.

And we managed to boot it up and pull all my shyt off of it.

Things to consider, but I hope you get your shyt breh, 'cause losing data on a drive....is just fukking tough.

Call that a toaster

 

[Zero]

That's why you got back your shyt up. The amount of legendary piff/programs/porn/pictures I've lost off the strength of my drives giving up the ghost randomly on me...fukkING...HURTS.

I still got multiple dead drives on a shelf, hoping that one day I'll get a chance to recover some of that shyt. But anyways, onto your question.

Your shyt is clicking, which definately means it's giving up the ghost. The computer might not recognize it everytime, but if it ever does, keep it very still and SAVE EVERY fukkING THING YOU CAN.

I got lucky with one drive and did that.

As far as Data Recovery goes.......I'd rather someone I knew personally to do the shyt for me 'cause the shyt I've got saved..... Nah. I don't need that out in the public for shyt.

Outside of that, the two methods I used worked (For me atleast) So you may want to try the second one, because the first is sort of impractical.

The first method, I kinda noticed that whenever I plugged in my drive, it would click and whir, but if I squeezed it down, shyt would start rumbling as opposed to clicking and I got it to work. I might have gotten lucky with that one, but I took everything I could off of it and breathed easy.

The second method, a breh of mine did for me, but he basically pulled the HD out of it's box and put it into one of these.

And we managed to boot it up and pull all my shyt off of it.

Things to consider, but I hope you get your shyt breh, 'cause losing data on a drive....is just fukking tough.

Listen to this man, especially the bolded. I wasn't about to redownload 3TB of bluray rips

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

Remember the rule when it comes to Hard Drives

When you need it most is when it will die....

That's why I always keep my stock of HDs well supplied so that there isn't one this is dire important since I could transfer shyt at any moment.

 

[get these nets]

thanks for the replies

i said fukk it and smashed it with a hammer

 

[deimoz]

ok ... I have sum questionz ....

do u prefer to keep ur external PLUGGED IN all the time or no ?

how OLD wuz ur hardrive(s) when it finally failed ?

when u hear the "clicking" noise , WILL U HAVE TIME to back-up ur files ?

 

[Alexander The Great]

thanks for the replies

i said fukk it and smashed it with a hammer

 

[MenacingMonk]

Got damn, these shyts fukk up too?

I fear for my piff in the future.

Any way to avoid it? I always discharge by computer first before I pull the plug, if that helps.

 

[Take It In Blood]

this is why its wise to have an optical drive and some dvd-rs for backup disc purposes

 

[Address_Unknown]

thanks for the replies

i said fukk it and smashed it with a hammer

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