# Is there anyway of saving my external Hard Drive?

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**Created:** [September 1, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-there-anyway-of-saving-my-external-hard-drive/237655 "2007-09-01T21:17:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![MikeDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeDS](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MikeDS)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-there-anyway-of-saving-my-external-hard-drive/237655/1 "2007-09-01T21:17:57Z")

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Hi again guys

I gave my fiancée my external hard drive to borrow last week, but she’s given it back to me saying that it has mysteriously stopped working.

So, I try it out on my PC and laptop, and no it doesn’t work. When you plug it in, Windows plays the sound that means a new USB device has been connected, but then the drive makes a pretty nasty clicking noise, which I believe means that it is \*\*\*\*ed, to put it nicely!!

So, I was wondering if there would be any hope of being able to get the data from the hard drive, or have I really lost over 60GB of stuff??