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I accidentally dropped my 500GB WD My Passport Essential. When I plugged it to my laptop it just makes a ticking sound for a few seconds. How can I fix my Passport Essential?

slhck
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Benny
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It's most likely dead. You could either send it to a data recovery service, or chalk it up to experience and buy a new one.

Anthony Giorgio
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It will never, ever be reliable again. Get your data from a backup and buy a new drive.

External, portable hard drives are about the least reliable storage device ever made. They get lost, dropped, left in hot cars, and even under ideal situations they only have an expected life of about three years.

David Schwartz
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