20 Most Recent Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD SATA Hard Drive - Page 6 Questions & Answers

HDD specifications are usually only up to ONE G, where "G" is 1x the force of gravity. By dropping it, you hit that "One G" mark and the HDD is now officially "toast". If there are truly important files on that dead HDD, you can send it away for forensic recovery, but that can be incredibly expensive. Wish I had better news, sorry. Purchase a SOLID-STATE Drive (SSD) to replace it. The specifications on those can be something like 5x G's or more.

Try having your PC scan for devices again to see if it work then. If not, go to the Western Digital website to find a driver for it. Hope this helps! :-)

Try to re-install your device's driver #NZ

wd external hard drive making ticking noise and seem to have lost all my photos and music

I assume you hard drive is locked. there is no default password for western digital drives, all drives have different passwords.

In windows go to Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk management click "Enter". Find the disk that says disk uninitialized right click in the box on the right hand side and click "Initialize".

What will open it is given here. http://file.org/extension/qel

The Blue light remains on if every things OK. Did you install WD Discovery? Then Map network drives. Then try installing/setting up again.

These are from the WD web site. http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=201&lang=en http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1284/session/L3RpbWUvMTM1NTYwNDQ2NC9zaWQvd3c4WnlRZGw%3D

This is too broad a question. Do you know it? Do you need to make it? Do you need to retrieve it?

Your answer may be here. http://www.dbstalk.com/topic/206052-upgrade-internal-hard-drive-on-hr44-500/

Having looked at the dock, if it's not appearing in the windows disk management I'm afraid you'll have to try another i/o method to test whether the drive is ok. The easiest option is to find someone with a computer which has a spare sata slot and partition it with that (assuming it sees it) or try a different device like a sata to usb converter. Alternatively you could make a linux or other bootable usb stick with formatting/partitioning utility and put the drive in your laptop, boot from the stick and partition it that way. I don't think there are any user settings in the dock you have and no jumpers on the drive so you're scuppered. Let us know how you get on? Of course having partitioned it it might just not be compatible with your dock, although Just one more thing if you haven't, try connecting the power to the dock before you plug it into the laptop and try each of your usb ports

Check disk is looking for bad sectors and will attempt to fix them. If check disk cannot Finnish this may be indicating the hard drive is failing. I recommend to replace it before all data is lost.