WD my passport 1 tb making a clicking sound when I

SOURCE: How to format WD Passport 1TB to FAT32

Plug the drive into your PC.

Right Click on My Computer (or Computer in Vista/Windows 7) and select Manage.

Click on Disk Management.

Right Click the Volume in question and select Format. Select FAT32 in the options.

SOURCE: MY COMPUTER WILL NOT RECOGNISE

If the following does not work (also if you tried rebooting your pc, checked all cables/wires, and tried a different port for the external drive) then you will most likely have to get the drive replaced. This is actually a quite common problem with the drive you bought.

Try this:

I'm assuming you're running Windows.

Sometimes if my external drive fails to mount. What I do to force it to mount is follow these steps:

1. Click your 'Start Menu' and open up a command line window. Either find it in the Accessories folder or type cmd at the search.
2. In the cmd window, type 'diskpart'. A new command window might pop up.
3. In the new window, or the same one if a new one doesn't pop up, then type 'list volume'. It will list a number of volumes on the system in the following format:
   
   Volume ## Ltr Label FS Type Size Status Info.
   
4. Find your hard drive in this list and note the volume number. I usually find the hard drive by comparing Sizes, but it should also show your hard drive's name under Label.
5. Next type 'select volume x' where x is the volume number for your external hard drive volume. So for instance if your hd happened to be listed as Volume 3, you would type 'select volume 3' ------------- without the ' '
6. Now, type 'assign letter=G' or whatever letter you want your volume to be.

Once you've done this, your volume should be mounted and you should be able to access your drive normally.

If this fails and all else fails, you most likely have a defective drive and should be able to swap it out under warranty. If a warranty swap isn't an option, I did find the following information that may help you to fix the drive so you can recover your data:

http://forum.hddguru.com/wd10tmvv-t16204-40.html

I hope this helps and I wish you the best of luck!

Have a great day!

Best Regards,

James

SOURCE: i have a 1TB WD

You are trying to conect this disk to the standalone Sony bluray device with USB cable?
You are sure sony have implemented this functions (external disk support) on this player?

Now knowing enough about the sony device, you should first of all see through the users manual. There could be a FAT(32) / NTFS issue. Some devices like this does not support NTFS, and the drive must be formated with FAT32.

SOURCE: WD 1TB My Passport Essential is unusable.

This error comes up when the drive is formated by a different operating system, and yours can not read it. You will need to format it to be read by your current system, but you will lose any data on it. The only other option is to find out what it was formated for, Windows or MAC, and hooking it up to that computer.
With a Windows system, once you hook it up, open explorer (not internet explorer). You will see that drive on the right side, right click on it and choose the format option. Once it has been formated, you will be able to use it.