Hi,
I have a Western Digital Elements 1TB External Hard Drive,
however it was interrupted during formatting and is now not working
properly. I am told that since the drive was not disconnected from the
power there should not be a problem
The drive shows up in my
computer but will not open. In disk management (under computer
management) the disk shows up as uninitialised. When I try to
initialize the disk it says 'The drive cannot find the sector
requested'.
The Western Digital Diagnostic tool shows the disk
as USB but shows its capacity as 0mb. When I run diagnostics it comes
up with the following error code : 11-Cable Test::Read diagnostics
sector error!
How can I get the hard drive working again? The data that is stored on it does not matter, I wish to start again.
Thanks a lot
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Hi,
The problem you're having is not at all uncommon. The external drive may simply have been disconnected improperly or may have experience a small power surge while it was writing files.
The files on the drive are most likely still retrievable should you need them. If you already have copies of all of them you can simply reformat the drive and recopy them to it. If you do not have copies, whatever you do, do not format the drive.
Assuming the damage is logical(lost the partition table), your files should be recoverable through a relatively inexpensive data recovery process. Should the drive turn out to actually be failing they are likely still recoverable but this tends to be more expensive.
There are a lot of good companies that can handle this type of recovery. The one I often use for my clients it Armor-IT Data Recovery. Although they have recently gone private(gov't contracts) you can still find them by searching the above on google and they still do private work out of Canada, they just don't advertise anymore.
Hope this helps FixYa
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irst connect your drive to computer then check its drive letter meand c: or d: or e:
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