Hi guys,

I have a 1Tb external HDD standing here on my desk. Until yesterday morning it worked perfectly. Yesterday evening however it probably crashed. It doesn't want to start up when I flick the on switch. I can hear the disc spool, after a few seconds I hear a loud click and that's it. Normally I would get a pop up menu with few options (open files, take no action etc) but now it does nothing of that kind. It doesn't show up in My Computer either. Looks like it doesn't go past it start up sequence.

Luckily I made a back-up of all my pictures on the HDD last week (some 3000 pics would have been lost otherwise). It also contains most of my music and documents (not important enough to worry about).

Any ideas on how to get this HDD back to life? Or should I consider it a write off?

Crash

EDIT: Never mind, it's a goner. According to the guys at my local computerrepairshop it's broken. It's possible to retrieve the information but that will be quite expensive. And that's not worth it.

Crash

That's the first thing I tried. But like I wrote I had the HDD checked by a pro and he confirmed what I already thought. No problem though, I'm going to buy a new hard disc. Internal this time, maybe I'll throw in a new mobo and graphics card too.

Crash