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Hard Drive Not Recognized

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#1 · (Edited)
My Western Digital MyBook 1.5 GB has recently stopped working. I spins for about 20 seconds, then stops. It is not recognized in windows explorer, but it is recognized in device manager and disk management.

Under disk management it says that it has 2047.35 GB unallocated space.
It also says the disk is unknown and not intitalized. When trying
to intitalize the drive, it says "The media is write protected".

I have tried swapping usb cables, running safe mode, and freezing it.

Any help would be amazing! Thanks!

Picture of Disk Management
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Picture of Windows Explorer and drive properties
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#8 ·
back up the registry

then

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

look for

storage device policies
select and highlight the key storage device policies
see if there is write protect
if there is
double click on write protect and set its value data as 0
 
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