[AJMyster]

Hey everyone.

Hope someone could help me please???

I have a wd 2.5tb hard drive(usb and powered plug in) that my computer wont pick up...
I am running off windows 7

Oky so the problem is that it doesnt pick up anywhere on my pc ex: computer,disk management or device manager...

If i just plug in the power supply of the ex-HD nothing happens.
But when i plug in the usb into the pc and ex-HD the light flashes and the ex-HD starts up.
After a min or so the hard drive stop moving but light still flashes and it stays like that till you unplug the power supply.

I have taken it out of its casing and plug the hard drive directly into a tower computer...

Is there anyone that can help me recover the data on the hard drive or make it work? please and thank you...

 

[spunk.funk]

I have taken it out of its casing and plug the hard drive directly into a tower computer...

If you have taken the HDD out of the enclosure, and you attached it to a desktop computer and the HDD spins up and then spins down, then the drive has failed. If the drive stays spinning and is recognized when you boot into Setup (Bios) then you can use various recovery programs to recover the files. But if it won't continue to spin or be recognized in the Bios, then the only option is to send it to a very, very expensive data recovery specialist.

 

[fzabkar]

If the drive is recognised inside your computer, then you still won't have access to your data even if the drive is perfectly healthy. That's because it will have been configured with 4KB LBAs when inside your enclosure. When you install it inside your PC, you expose the drive's 512-byte LBAs. Furthermore, some WD externals are encrypted (eg My Book Essentials).