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External hard drive not working... please help
Hello,
My external hard drive recently became unreadable. I've had it for a few years now and it worked fine up until now.
When I plug it in, it makes a clicking sound for a few seconds and then stops.
Here is what I see under Disk Management:
If I choose to initialize it (2nd image below), will this delete everything on the hard drive? If yes, I don't want to do this because I have important data on there.
What are my options for recovering my data?
Sorry for the long images in the post - I tried using a different image file hosting service but the URL was blocked for some reason.
Thanks