All of a sudden My WD elements SE stopped working. I had just finished moving some files to the HDD, I ejected the HDD with the safely remove hardware and media tool as part of Windows 7. I then realises I had forgotten to place some data on the HDD so I plugged the HDD back into the same USB port. …

HDD will not initialize (write protected)

Lance_S July 9, 2012, 5:19pm 9

Same thing here, but mine is a My Passport 0730. I see a lot of the same problem, but no answers.