My WD Passport will not mount on my mac because I pulled it out without ejecting it properly. I plugged it into my other mac and found the data.
I had this same issue, computer gave ERROR CODE: 2000-0141, HARD DRIVE:- NO DRIVE DETECTED' and the hard drive was making a skipping clicking noise. Turned off and on a few times, no change, put the hard drive in another machine, no change. Hit F12 to go into boot setup, of course hard drive not detected and it makes crazy beeping noises and drive still clicking away. I cancelled the drive search so it was just sitting in this white screen diagnostics menu.
After a while, maybe 10-20 minutes all of a sudden the clicking stopped and drive sounded normal. I rebooted, and everything was fine. I guess the spinning drive got stuck and while clicking away trying to spin it eventually unstuck itself.
Not the best solution and I'll try to update if it 'dies' again, but wanted to share. Sadly, it likely is.
Here's a nice YouTube on what it looks like inside:. Frankly this guy is trying to scare up some business with this vid.
In any case don't open it up like he did as you will make things much worse! You need a clean room and very special tools to repair the drive if it can be.
Often the heads snap off from a sharp bang. Think how a phonograph works with a record when you hit it you kill the record as the needle scratches it.
A HD is no different, if you banged it you kill it. Data recovering services charge a lot so hopefully you have a backup. Heres the WD TN on the causes:. I just had a 2.5' wd blue 500G drive die on my wife's Lenovo. The HDD make repeated clicking/chattering noises and for all intents and purposes was dead.
I put the drive into the second sata bay of my Clevo laptop and windows disk manager showed it was recognized as a drive but could not register or access any volumes. This told me it most likely wasn't the HDD's circuit board.
Im pretty gifted at fixing things so with nothing to lose I removed the HDD's cover which revealed the platters. I noticed the head was parked in the middle of the platter. Very carefully I swung the head assembly back to its power off position. I buttoned everything back up, powered it on and to my suprise it was working!!!
I scanned the disk for errors and none were found. Even though I had an incredible stroke of luck Im taking no chances, Im making recovery discs and will probably install a SSD. The good news ᎓ While looking for a solution to my own clicking/chattering Seagate Expansion external USB drive I found this thread and really, really liked this post, Chris Barth. The bad news ᎓ I liked it so much I decided, in my own mind, that this MUST be exactly what's wrong with my drive, and that, were I to open it just as you did, I will find EXACTLY the same situation, whereupon I will fix it in EXACTLY the same way, and all will be right with the world.
And so this is bad because, when I DO open it and see that the drive heads are NOT in the middle but parked PRECISELY where they should be, I will carefully, methodically, and with no fanfare at all, set about killing myself. Hello Chris.Please can you contact me.My WD drive dropped on the floor and i have not been able to access anything inside of it.It shows LED light when connected.It doesnt show in 'My Computer' but it makes clicking sounds for about 5seconds and in Computer Management it shows as Disk1 and says 'Disk not Initialized'. When i try to initialize it with the Masters Boot Record Option,i get ' The system cannot find the file specified'. I need you to help with a solution to my problem. Please you can contact me on skype so i can share my screen with you to see the behaviour of the 2TB WD External Harddrive.My Skype ID is damib and my whatsapp gsmno is 740. If it was spinning while it dropped you may have scratched the platter or corrupted the file format.
It may have damaged the read/write mechanism but most likely it scratched/corrupted the platter. I once did the same thing while backing up some pics, lost all my son's baby pics:( The head actually never touches the platter, it floats on a cushion of air created by the spinning disc, dropping it while spinning will crash the head into the disc. You may still be in luck though, there may be software that can recover some/most of the files. I'm not an expert in file recovery though so I can't point you to what software to use. Had the same issue with one of my Passports. Remembered having the same symptoms with the old iPod drives before they went solid-state.
Old school lo-tech fixes sometimes just work. Tried utilities, web searches, youtube, different computers and ports. Finally just rapped the POS sharply on an edge against a counter, just like the old iPod. Spun right up with no clicking when I connected it. Copying the data elsewhere since it's likely to occur again. Before the trolls start flaming me.
Argue with that. When you have a dead drive and no other recourse what have you got to lose? Don't rush throwing it away.
My oldest WD internal drive is 14 yo and all of a sudden it started clicking loudly and shutdown itself after 30sec. Removing the data cable as WD suggest didn't help. A guy from recovery services said, if it's spinning, 99.9% it's not the PCB. My HDD never fell, nor got a physical damage.
Could be heads calibration issue or a damaged Service Area that stores manufacture data required for HDD operation. I thought of opening and inspecting the heads and platters (drive has no critical data on it), pulled the HDD out and while holding it bottom up connected it to the power.
Surprisingly, the gravitational force made the trick with the heads! The HDD started spinning without clicking. Holding in this position, I connected the data cable, opened the Device Manager and performed a Scan for HW changes.
The drive was detected and showed in Windows. I copied all the needed files, except two that failed reading at 95% due to bad sectors. Copied those using Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier.
It took two days to copy while HDD is in bottom up position. Hope this helps someone.
Hello Alex,Please can you contact me.My WD drive dropped on the floor and i have not been able to access anything inside of it.It shows LED light when connected.It doesnt show in 'My Computer' but it makes clicking sounds for about 5seconds and in Computer Management it shows as Disk1 and says 'Disk not Initialized'. When i try to initialize it with the Masters Boot Record Option,i get ' The system cannot find the file specified'. I need you to help with a solution to my problem.
Please you can contact me on skype so i can share my screen with you to see the behaviour of the 2TB WD External Harddrive.My Skype ID is damib and my whatsapp gsmno is 740. I have a lot of WD drives, I'm a Vietnam based photographer and I use them to store my work on. I travel regularly for work so I keep three copies of every drive so that I can travel with two drives and leave one behind in case I get robbed while I am travelling. When all three drives are full I send the third drive back to my home country of Australia in case something happens to my drives in Vietnam.
I have been using WD drives since 2012 and I now have 24 drives in total. In the past six months I've had this happen twice so I am thankful that I always keep backups of everything. On a side note I sync the backups using a program called Cronosync which syncs all new and updated files automatically at the click of a button. Anyway luckily both of effected drives where still under warranty when it happened and both where backed up onto other copies.
WD replaced the drives within a few days of me notifying them of the problem as well. So for anyone whom does have a backup (and anything important should be backed up) then this is the best way to fix the problem. Just get onto the WD website and log into the my support section. Notify them of the problem and the drive will be replaced. If it increases while playing games, that's almost certainly a fan in your device with something in it. When that fan spins up, so will the clicking sound, which would explain why it gets more frequent during gaming.
Most laptop (or desktop) fans are quite easy to clean these days, so I would recommend looking up your device model here on iFixit and finding a guide for how to get to the fan assembly so that you can clean it out. Often the object causing clicking will be something like a tiny piece of paper or a piece of hair.