I have a Western Digital Elements 1Tb external drive which contains around 490Gb of data.(The drive itself is a WD Caviar Green, 32Mb cache)
The drive functioned normally for an amount of time but a while ago it started failing to spin up. I'm not getting the distinct 'click' of a dead drive, just repeated quiet attempts to get itself going.
I have removed the drive from its enclosure to see if the casing was the problem. After connecting it to an internal SATA port and power cable my PC failed to boot so it seems it is the drive itself which is the problem.
The drive shows up in Device Manager as working properly and any diagnostic tools show the correct capacity and volume of data but the folders remain inaccessible and my PC seems to struggle to perform some tasks while the drive is attempting to start. When the drive does finally show up it shows as a 'local drive' in 'My Computer' and remains inaccessible.
I have tried:
Editing the registry as advised on the Microsoft support site
Changing the drive letter
Multiple USB and power cables
Using as an internal drive
The drive functioned normally for an amount of time but a while ago it started failing to spin up. I'm not getting the distinct 'click' of a dead drive, just repeated quiet attempts to get itself going.
I have removed the drive from its enclosure to see if the casing was the problem. After connecting it to an internal SATA port and power cable my PC failed to boot so it seems it is the drive itself which is the problem.
The drive shows up in Device Manager as working properly and any diagnostic tools show the correct capacity and volume of data but the folders remain inaccessible and my PC seems to struggle to perform some tasks while the drive is attempting to start. When the drive does finally show up it shows as a 'local drive' in 'My Computer' and remains inaccessible.
I have tried:
Editing the registry as advised on the Microsoft support site
Changing the drive letter
Multiple USB and power cables
Using as an internal drive