WD My Passport Click Of Death – Fix

Click of death is one of the common issues, which is an indication of your hard drive failure. This problem will basically occur due to an insufficient power supply. It mostly happens when you’ve connected multiple devices to a single port. Suppose you have encountered the “click of death” issue on your “ WD My Passport” hard drive, no worries. We have included some simple and quick troubleshooting methods on this page. So, as per the instructions given below, you can fix this issue within minutes.

Ensure The Connection

• First, make sure to connect the My Passport hard drive to the correct port on your computer.
• If it does not connect properly, remove the drive and reconnect it to a different port on the computer.
• If it doesn’t work, replace the USB cable with a new one and reconnect the hard drive to your computer.
• In case you are using an adapter, remove the hard drive and wait for some time.
• Again, reconnect the hard drive to the adapter.
• Check whether the issue is solved.
• If the problem continues, follow the next instructions.

Update The Device Driver

• Make sure to connect the hard drive to your computer.
• Now, go to the Device Manager window.
• Navigate to the Disk drives category and expand it.
• Right-click on the respective hard drive and select the Update driver option.
• In the next window, pick the Search automatically for updated driver software option from the list.



• Now, follow the on-screen prompts to finish updating the driver.

Follow the steps given below to recover the data from your WD Passport Click Of Death issues hard drive.

Recover Your Data From The Hard Drive

Start CHKDSK Scan

• Make sure to connect the hard drive to your computer.
• Now, you’ll have to open the Command Prompt window on your computer.
• Next, type the below command and press the Enter key on the keyboard.
• chkdsk X:/R
• In the above command, ensure to replace X with the letter assigned to your hard drive and press Enter on the keyboard.
• The process will take some time to finish, depending on the size of your external hard drive.

Run SFC Scan

With the above instructions, you can fix the “WD My Passport Click Of Death” issue. For more doubts & clarrifications, contact out techical team for remote assisstance.