Recover data from Western Digital hard drives

WD logoIn the previous post to this, I wrote a lot about how hard drives become mechanically damaged and what to do to recover the data from them when they break. In this post I give some further examples of data recovery from Western Digital hard drives.

I have a WD external hard drive that when plugged in it makes a noise “tick” every second as if something was hitting something else. It is not recognised by the pc…

I have a 2 week old WD Mycloud Home Nas Drive which has stopped working. I took it back to curry’s who said that the clicking sound when trying to boot means the drive cannot read the data. The PC does not recognise the drive either.

I used a WD external hard drive to set up a windows 10 boot drive. Windows partitioned the drive and I can now only see it as a 4GB flash drive. In device manager I can see the rest of the drive is not formatted. The data is still there, I just cant get to it without formatting which will erase it. The drive holds about 1TB of data. Can you format or recover the data?

I have two WD elements external hard drives (1 x 1tb 1 x 2tb). one was working fine until i dropped it the other day it reads but it is very slow and the other one says F: Drive Is Not Accessible. The Parameter Is Incorrect or something similar both contain music, videos and pictures which is important that i get back.

After my wife has dropped my harddrive during a decoration weekend it has stopped responding.
the device still registers connected and shows all folders saved but I can not access these folders
also makes like a skidding noise periodically.
The device name is WD Elements
i need to try and recover the files on here as i have alot of buisness data
and family photos

WB Mybook 2Tb HD broken; I’ve taken it out of its casing and can’t recover any data from it. It contains laptop backups and other data I’d like to recover. How much would it cost to get it recovered onto a USB HD?

WD passport ultra. I sent it to a data recovery service, but have been told it has a mechanical fault that means the data cannot be recovered- the head stack?
They looked into mechanical repairs for me but there was chance it could not be fixed and it would cost a lot of money ([probably for nothing).
I would be grateful if you could offer your opinion/advice.

In my opinion, if you have a broken WD hard drive and you want to recover the data, I would only recommend you try and do this yourself if the data on the hard drive is of no value to you. The reason for this is you’ll probably make a mess of it. I’ve learnt that if you have files on a Western Digital hard drive that are of value to you then you should ask a good data recovery company to retrieve your data for you. Do not try and recover the data on your own.

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