I have a 500GB WD external hard drive with USB connectivity. Every time I plug it in to my computer now and turn it on the drive will spin up and there’s a series of clicking noises like something is skipping. It then stops spinning and is unrecognized by the computer. Any ideas of what this is o…

Skipping Hard Drive / Clicking Noise inside

tumbleweed December 6, 2010, 12:11am 3

mine just started doing the same thing last week. I have to keep unplugging and replugging it in till it finally works right.