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I'm very sorry I'm new to the forums and I'm using the seven forum app on my phone as I don't have a spare PC
Poororo welcome to our forum.
Let's see if we can get you pointed in the right direction.
1. One problem one computer one thread. Otherwise it's nothing but confusion.
2. Remove all usb connections except mouse and keyboard.
3. Boot your computer and let us know how it goes. Don't do anything else with your computer until you post back. That will give these good members a starting point to give further recommendations.
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These good members need to have your computer boot properly before worrying about a external hard drive.
****Did you install Windows 7 Ultimate yourself?****
A one time (I think noise) is impossible to troubleshoot.
Just keep a close eye or ear on your system.
At this point my understanding is your computer boot properly and that is good.
I had a Toshiba external that started clicking, I took King Arthurs (a) advice and connected it via a powered hub (5v 2.6A) and the clicking has stopped and file transfer working.
Thanks.
Welcome to our forum gawain.
That is a good point. Under powered usb ports can cause all kinds of problems.
I recently bought a WD My Passport Ultra 1 TB external HDD USB3. While I was able to use it without any problems on my Lenovo Ideapad, the HDD was not recognized when connected to the front USB 2.0 ports of my PC running win 7.
In addition, clicking sounds were heard every 10 minutes, or so.
I connected the HDD to the rear USB 2.0 ports and all was well. WD drive utilities also reported SMART OK and Quick Drive Test also returned a "Passed" report.
whew.
Thanks to Layback Bear
Thank you.
Clicking is usually a very bad sign of a drive failing. Store important data on the drive else ware and return it if still under warranty. I can't see any reason why it shouldn't be recognized when connected to a USB 2 port.
Similar experience here. I had an external disk drive to which Macrium backups would abort, and it made clicking sounds. After some research, I discovered that my USB cable was the culprit. It was USB 3.0 and 3 meters long, whereas a little-advertised limitation of USB 3.0 is : keep it to 2 meters max if you plan to power a hard drive out of it.
I switched the disk to a USB 2.0 cable, and it happily hummed again.