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from vthe symptoms you explain, it sounds like the the drive is just about dead, continual clicking usually indicates some sort of physical damage to the drive itself.
if the drive fails completely, data recovery would be quite expensive in these instances so if possible you should get another external drive and transfer your data before the inevitable happens.
If you have completed the above checks and procedures and the drive is still not properly detected, please attempt to use Seatools for DOS (see the tutorial here) to test the drive. If SeaTools does not detect the drive after the steps followed above, or an error code that signifies drive failure displays, please proceed to the our Warranty Services page to begin a warranty replacement order.
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