WD Passport: clicking noise of death
It almost looked like my disk was going to die. My OS was giving me disk errors and the disk was making horrible clicking noises.
Turns out that I need to connect the disk to the USB ports on the left side of the HP dv5t laptop, rather than the ones on the right side. It seems to be related to some USB ports being able to provide more power to the disk than others. Whether the laptop was running on battery or AC also seems to make a difference.
All seems to be well now!
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