WD 6TB My book for Mac

WD 6TB My Book for Mac Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBYCC0060HBK-NESN

I cannot access my drive it powers up and runs for about a minute, the fan has a buz to it and there is a clicking sound 2 clicks a second about, any idea, it’s about 2 years old and it’s been on a shelf with 2 other WD drives older but still working, is there a warranty what are my options, I’m a photographer and ther is about 3 gb of raw files on there i need.
please advise.

Hi Phil6,

It is recommended to diagnose the health status of the drive using WD Drive utilities when the drive is working abnormal. You can refer the article mentioned below for more details to know the steps to check the drive health status.

https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=10408#winWDDriveUtilities

You can also follow the instructions provided in below mentioned article to troubleshoot for the repeated clicking noise in your My Book Device.

https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=197#with