Today has been an unbelievably bad day.
I turned on the computer this morning, expecting the comforting sound of a whirring 320GB external hard drive.
Instead, I received a terrifying clicking sound.
Click, click, click, click, click........ Then nothing, it just dies.
So I visit loads of discussion boards, trying to find solutions.
In the end I pry the outer casing apart, and extract the actual hard drive.
I plug it into my computer internally, restart, and there it is again. Clicking like a bastard.
I went back to the discussion boards, this time posting my own question:
http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/868791-clicking-external-hard-drive-cant.html
I was given an article to read from my first reply, an article about how freezing your hard drive in a freezer can temporarily fix the problem.
Unbelievable...
So I tried it and it didn't work. I took it out the freezer after 4 hours of cooling and it proceeded to sing it's clicky song.
I can't help but feel like a idiot after putting my hard drive in a freezer for several hours.
So in conclusion, I started the day with this:
And I ended with this:
Not bad for a day's work.