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External USB HDD Help?

helloman1556
By helloman1556
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So my external USB 3.0 WD My Passport 1TB HDD started making a buzzing sound starting this morning, and it's not being detected in File Explorer or WD Drive Utilities. How likely is it that the drive died and is there a way to still obtain SMART data on the drive? I bought the drive in August 2013 and don't think I've physically damaged it.

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does it come up in the disk management? If no it looks the the HDD hardware has failed and you might not be able to get the data back. You could try a professional data recovery but I can't promise anything

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