Windows 10: Clicking noise coming from laptop and I have no access to my D drive

Yesterday out of nowhere I started hearing clicking sounds from my laptop which I assume is my HDD. At the time my D drive was working fine so I decided to restart my laptop to see if the problem would go away, I restarted it but I could no longer see the D drive in the file explorer. I restarted it again and my laptop did a disk scan check on boot and it started "fixing" it. It didn't work so i restarted it again and I could now at least see my D drive in the file explorer but it was "not accessible. The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable". However I can still see it in my Disk Manage

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Clicking noise on drive and having no access to it

Hi tsintsin,

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

If you are hearing a regular clicking noise coming from a hard drive then most likely that drive has failed, it is the head on the drive moving backwards and forwards trying to find the landing zone on the drive and not finding it.

1

Open Disk Management (accessible by right clicking your Start Button)

Does that utility take time to open or produce an error?

2

Click your Start Button, then just type cmd and from the resulting menu, right click Command Prompt and select 'Run as Administrator.

Run this command and hit Enter:

diskpart

Run this command and hit Enter:

list disk

Please provide a screenshot of that Command Prompt window.

 

Clicking noise on drive and having no access to it

Hi, so i have a problem with my hard drive. My pc starts having this clicking noise and i recently find out that its the drive that is causing it. When I looked in files, my other drive doesn't show how many space i have left and consumed. And i cant access my files in it. It says D:\ is not accessible the parameter is incorrect.

 

Cannot access D drive since upgrading to Windows 10.

Hello Judy,



Thank you for replying quickly with the status of the issue.



Please reply to few more questions:

• 
  Is the D: drive located on the same hard disk or on different hard disk?
  
• 
  Did you have any important data saved on the
  D: drive?
  

If the D: is saved on another hard disk and you are unable to access it, I suggest you to format the drive completely and check if the issue is resolved.



To format the hard disk, follow the steps below:

• 
  Press Windows logo + X keys on the keyboard and select
  Disk management option.
  
• 
  Right click on the D: drive and select
  Format option.
  
• 
  Wait for the formatting to complete and check if the changes are effective.
  

Write to us with the status of the issue for further assistance. Your reply is most important for us to ensure we assist you accordingly.



Thank you.