Click of death on WD passport 1tb 2013?

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Hi, thank you for your response, here are my answers

  1. It is quite useless once the drive is connected, it will make the explorer.exe somehow ‘deadlocked’ when restart, had to do hard restart by pressing reset/power button for 5 seconds

  2. I even tried on my laptop, it is the same

  3. It does recognizes the USB, but I also hear the drive, it is spinning but I could hear a constant clicking sound

  4. If I go to the disk management, the process will also goes into not responding state, even if I tried to remove the drive’s driver from device manager, nothing happened and disconnecting the drive’s cable would also renders the driver uninstallation process ‘not doing anything’

One last thing though, I tried the MHDD tool, tried to connect to my laptop via USB and left it for about 7 hours for it to somehow ‘initialize’ the drive in hoping to recover from click of death just like what I did on my Seagate drive that occurred to me last year, the tool are unable to proceed due to the drive ‘unable to initialize’

Thank you in advance