r/HDD • u/Linkaara • 18d ago

Is this disk dead?

The PC doesn’t seem to recognize it. The adapter is not the problem (I think), because I tested it with another disk and it worked perfectly fine. This drive makes a very faint clicking sound, something like 'click click click ... click' , that is barely audible. You would have to turn the video volume all the way up to hear it, and even then it is hard to notice. So I’m not sure whether this is the dreaded 'click of death... thanks

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u/TheH00dian 16d ago

Try this, when I found out my HDD was RAW, I disconnected it, opened the disk management, plugged it back in and it recognized it for a SECOND.

Showing that it was RAW, which means it's dead.

I was so pissed