Dear community,
My WD 500GB external harddrive has suddenly stopped working . I plugged in the HD into my laptop and I noticed that it does not show up under My Computer, only under Safely Remove Hardware and Devices. So i called customer service n they said that I should go to Disk Management and see if my drive is there.
Turns out the HD is listed there, Not Intialized’. There is no blue bar either, it just says the size of the disk and that it is unallocated (it does not have a Volume letter).
When I start up Disk Management it gives me a notification:
Initialize Disk
You must initialize a disk before Logical Disk Manager can access it.
Select Disk:
Disk 1
Use the following partition style for the selected disks:
MBR (Master Boot Record)
GPT (GUID Partition Table)
So I click on MBR and press OK, and it gives me the error ‘The media is write protected’.
I can’t even reformat the disk because I cannot find such option, not that I want to really, because I have 265GB worth of data on there that I want to keep so losing the information on this Drive will be quite… frustrating.
Any help is appreciated.my email id— [Deleted]
