Some USB ports output lower amounts of current than others, and the portable hard drive worked fine before but not on the new machine, perhaps you should try the drive again on the original computer / port, or in another USB socket. The one situation where we might say to try anything on your own, would be if you’re plugging a portable drive into a different computer than normal and if the drive worked fine before on the original computer, but clicks on the new computer. If it’s clicking after having been dropped, the problem is almost certainly bad heads and at least minor platter damage, which usually requires professional cleanroom data recovery work. Most-likely the drive doesn’t detect, but even if it does, if it’s still making the clicking noises, we don’t recommend continued efforts without professional data recovery equipment. You power the computer on or power-on and plug-in an external drive and hear clicking noises that sound different than the normal sounds your drive has always made. A hard drive with abnormal clicking is almost always caused by physical problems (even if the drive hasn’t been dropped), and continuing to power on and spin up a clicking drive can allow the potential damage to spread and can quickly make an already-bad situation much worse. In short, if your drive is making strange noises that you haven’t heard before, we recommend turning it off immediately and calling the pros at IT Data Recovery. Clunking / other strange hard drive noises
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