Clicking noise, blinking light, no connection

WD External and Portable SSD External SSD for Windows
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I have a 1.5 TB WD drive (F0020HBK) that has been singing along just fine.  Recently it started making a clicking noise.  When I unplugged it from my laptop this last time and replugged it back in, the laptop recognizes that I attached something to the drive, the initial auto play menu pops up, but then after I click out of that, I get nothing.  It just freezes my computer and nothing further can be done.  On the occasion that I can pull up “My computer” it is not visible as being attached in that USB port.  The WD drive just makes a light clicking sound and the lowest light is blinking.  Not even half the lights light up like they did before.

I’m wondering what I did to bring this on so that I prevent it from happening with my new 2TB WD drive and if there is anyway I can get in there to recover my January photographs.

Any ideas?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks.

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The clicking noise means one of three things

not enough power= try connecting the drives power adapter directly into a wall outlet not a power strip

bad data cable= try changing data cables

drive failure= RMA which means if your under warranty replace it or contact a data recovery company to recover data.

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I’ll go try those solutions.  Thanks!

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it appears to have been the data cable!  Thanks!

Although, it’s still making the clicking noise so I’m going to have it looked at but at least I can access all my information now before I take it in.

Cheers!