I have had this drive in an external enclosure for about a year. Recently it kept vanishing from Windows explorer until I turn the enclosure off and back on, then I hept getting a message that I needed to format the drive. I copied all the files to another drive and attempted to format the drive. It…

WD20 EZRX does not complete format

LB_WD March 3, 2015, 5:51pm 2

Hi Warmbell,

Can you try the drive outside of the enclosure? If the drive is passing SMART, it is possible that you may have a bad enclosure.