My 1tb external HD is no longer recognized

Hi there,

I have a 1tb WD passbook that was working fine until about a week ago.

I noticed it would not show up. So I bought a new cord and it did show up for a moment but I could not access any of my files.

So I have already tried changing the cords.

But then it would not even be recognized. I will plug it in and it will make some funny noises as it tried to work but then after a minute of so it just comes up with ‘It is not recognized’ or something along those lines…

It sometimes makes a small click noise…but its definitely not the click of death ( I have experienced that before and it sounds completely different.

I also tried using a different mac but the same thing happened.

Does anyone have any ideas that I can try to try and recover my files? I really don’t know if I can afford for them to be extracted by a professional. I hope I can somehow fix it myself.

Any info would be appreciated.

Kind regards,

Phoebe