Hello,
I bought a WD Elements 1023 USB 1TB external hard drive about two/three weeks ago. I transferred about 300 GB of files onto it and it worked fine until just last night when it no longer showed up on 'My Computer' anymore. It still shows up in the 'Safely Remove Hardware' window (without drive letter), in the 'Devices and Printers' window and in 'Disk Management' as well. However, when I open up 'Disk Management', it says that the disk is not initialized [1st attachment] and I can't initialize it because it's write protected (I'm guessing it's because I have files on it). I've tried plugging it into all three different USB ports on my Windows 7 HP Pavilion laptop and on my Windows 7 Toshiba netbook, but it didn't register on any of them.
I then tried running TestDisk from the "stickied" instructions, but Stage E gives me 'Partition: Read Error' [2nd attachment], and nothing showing up in Stage G and H.
Could anyone offer any advice as to what I can do to get my external hard drive working again without losing all the stuff that I have on there?
Thanks,
wintaer
I bought a WD Elements 1023 USB 1TB external hard drive about two/three weeks ago. I transferred about 300 GB of files onto it and it worked fine until just last night when it no longer showed up on 'My Computer' anymore. It still shows up in the 'Safely Remove Hardware' window (without drive letter), in the 'Devices and Printers' window and in 'Disk Management' as well. However, when I open up 'Disk Management', it says that the disk is not initialized [1st attachment] and I can't initialize it because it's write protected (I'm guessing it's because I have files on it). I've tried plugging it into all three different USB ports on my Windows 7 HP Pavilion laptop and on my Windows 7 Toshiba netbook, but it didn't register on any of them.
I then tried running TestDisk from the "stickied" instructions, but Stage E gives me 'Partition: Read Error' [2nd attachment], and nothing showing up in Stage G and H.
Could anyone offer any advice as to what I can do to get my external hard drive working again without losing all the stuff that I have on there?
Thanks,
wintaer
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