Looking to see if WD has any recovery utilities. We had a 1TB external drive that failed. I removed the drive and put it in my PC. The BIOS recognizes the drive but Windows will not assign a drive to it. I also tried it under Linux, but still no recognition. I can see the drive’s partitions under Di…

Recovery Utilities for WD?

Joe_S February 6, 2013, 4:18pm 2

If this is a drive that came with Smartware the data is hardware encrypted. You can try something like TestDisk or Recuva for recovery software.

Joe