Re: WD 500GB Portable Hard Drive: Issue with device recognition

hedfones · 03-18-2008, 08:09 PM

I have a similar problem that just reared its ugly head yesterday. I installed Diskeeper and when I tried to defrag my 250gb external HD, it told me that there were errors and that CHKDSK was supposed to run the next time the computer booted. So a few hours later I rebooted and it ran CHKDSK on my 80gb internal HD instead. (taking a whopping nearly 2 hours I might add) When my laptop finally finished booting, my external HD didn't show up. Hmm, not a big problem I told myself and I disconnected the USB plug and reconnected it but instead of my OS picking up my HD, it just started doing this loud, annoying clicking noise instead. Now I can't get my computer to recognize the HD at all, no matter what I do. I'd really hate to think that my nearly 200 gig of data on it is lost. Any clues or ideas?

**Deleted090308** · 03-19-2008, 02:03 PM

Hi, welcome to TSF.

Try the drive with another computer.
Try different USB cables and USB ports.

Uninstall Diskkeeper and connect the drive again.

03-18-2008, 08:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
hedfones Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP Pro	Re: WD 500GB Portable Hard Drive: Issue with device recognition I have a similar problem that just reared its ugly head yesterday. I installed Diskeeper and when I tried to defrag my 250gb external HD, it told me that there were errors and that CHKDSK was supposed to run the next time the computer booted. So a few hours later I rebooted and it ran CHKDSK on my 80gb internal HD instead. (taking a whopping nearly 2 hours I might add) When my laptop finally finished booting, my external HD didn't show up. Hmm, not a big problem I told myself and I disconnected the USB plug and reconnected it but instead of my OS picking up my HD, it just started doing this loud, annoying clicking noise instead. Now I can't get my computer to recognize the HD at all, no matter what I do. I'd really hate to think that my nearly 200 gig of data on it is lost. Any clues or ideas?

03-19-2008, 02:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: WD 500GB Portable Hard Drive: Issue with device recognition Hi, welcome to TSF. Try the drive with another computer. Try different USB cables and USB ports. Uninstall Diskkeeper and connect the drive again.